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The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, Second Edition
Also see when the cat's away, the mice will play. when one's ship comes in When
one has made one's fortune, as in When my ship comes in I'll get a Mercedes or
better. This term alludes to ships returning from far-off places with a cargo of ...
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Street Talk: Da Official Guide to Hip-Hop & Urban Slanguage
(var. when in doubt do without) when [one's] ship comes in phrase (general sl.)
old school 1. a way to refer to one's acquiring of a substantial amount of money.
ex: "I'mma take care of you when my ship comes in. " "ll/1y ship finally about to ...
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m n-m m shipboard on shipboard £)H,L± I ±.tib (They're fellow passengers on
shipboard back to Hong Kong. im^m^-m^^m^m shipping to take shipping ±fnL I
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Does it mean to be generous when one's ship comes in? But who knows when
the ship will come? Spirituality is not attained by saying: “I will be spiritual one
day”. It is only by doing all one can for others that one discovers spirituality. It is
by ...
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Phraseology and Culture
in English
But some of its headphrases contained additional elements, as in come in handy,
come down to earth, come between somebody and something, when one's ship
comes in, come into sight / view, come out of the blue, come to a dead end, ...
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Chambers concise dictionary
[Anglo-Saxon scip] ♢ when one's ship comes in or comes home when one
becomes rich. -ship > suffix, forming nouns, denoting 1 position, rank or status •
lordship. 2 a period of office or rule • chairmanship. 3 a state or condition '
friendship.
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"Yes We Can": Barack Obama's Proverbial Rhetoric
(D,166) When one's ship comes in (home). How lucky he [Obama's father] must
have felt when his ship came sailing in! He must have known, when that letter
came from Hawaii, that he had been chosen after all; that he possessed the
grace of ...
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Chambers Pocket Dictionary
when one's ship comes in or home when one becomes rich. [OE scip] shipboard
adj taking place, or situated, on board a ship, shipmate n a fellow sailor, shipment
n 1 a cargo or consignment (not necessarily one sent by ship). 2 the act or ...
Elaine Higgleton, Howard Sargeant, Anne Seaton, 1992
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Chabers 21st Century Dictionary
when one's ship comes in or comes home when one becomes rich. © Anglo-
Saxon scip. □ ship someone off colloq to send them away; to dispatch a They
shipped the kids off to their grandparents. -ship c=- suffix, forming nouns,
denoting 1 ...
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McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Idoms and Phrasal Verbs
... another opens. when when one is good and ready when when one's ship
comes in when When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window.
when when push comes to shove when When the cat's away, the mice will play.
when ...
