- 看过 rock the boat 的人也看了 :
- complain
- disagree
- disturb
- make a stink
- make waves
- object
- protest
rock the boat 的定义
- Disturb a stable situation, as in An easygoing manager, he won't rock the boat unless it's absolutely necessary. This idiom alludes to capsizing a small vessel, such as a canoe, by moving about in it too violently. [Colloquial; early 1900s]
rock the boat 近义词
disturb the status quo
更多rock the boat例句
- France 24 is providing live, round-the-clock coverage of both scenes as they progress.
- The atmosphere on campuses has gotten repressive enough that comedian Chris Rock no longer plays colleges.
- Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.
- Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.
- And, as the enigmatic front man to an avant garde indie rock group, he is droll, perceptive, and splendidly weird.
- Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
- Hoosier hurried on board the boat, and followed Dick's instructions to the letter.
- The offspring of the ungodly shall not bring forth many branches, and make a noise as unclean roots upon the top of a rock.
- But, as the keel of the boats touched bottom, each boat-load dashed into the water and then into the enemy's fire.
- There lay Bob Rock, covered with blood, and apparently insensible.