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rock the boat
Idioms and Phrases
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]Example Sentences
Fabian remains a conundrum — is he just a “don’t rock the boat” ladder-climber or is it more sinister?
That guarantee may no longer stand now she is has handed over the reins, although her approach was widely regarded as sensible and Amazon are unlikely to rock the boat too much.
"We didn't want to rock the boat too much because he seemed like he knew exactly what he was doing," she said.
"People don't like to rock the boat in the outer islands," she says.
And conditions for any momentum are likely to worsen before the November election, when legislators will try not to rock the boat.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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