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sail into
Idioms and Phrases
Attack or criticize vigorously, as in It was part of his technique to sail into the sales force at the start of their end-of-the-year meeting . This term derives from sail in the sense of “move vigorously.†[Mid-1800s]Example Sentences
USC should sail into the Elite Eight, where they likely will face UConn, a team USC beat earlier in the season.
Congratulations coach, thank you and all the best from your @FOXSports and @NFLonFOX family as you set sail into retirement.
Next, Starr wrote, “under the pretext of protecting the violated rights of French California†— where have we heard that dodge before? —warships would sail into key California harbors and … voila!
Initially, Musk called for Trump to "hang up his hat & sail into the sunset" and had backed his rival, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, for the Republican nomination.
Before swaths of the city immolated, the Democratic mayor of an overwhelmingly Democratic city was widely expected to sail into a second term with no serious opponents in the 2026 election.
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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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