in the same boat
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3.2
- idiom
- Informal
:
estar en las mismas
- During the job search, we all realized we are in the same boat and need to support one another.
- all in the same boat
But he's saying you will be in the same boat as the Consult.
- But he's saying you will be in the same boat as the Consult.
- Do you put Kyrie in the same boat with Grant Hill?
- And and my attitude is that science itself is in the same boat.
- So this is really personal to me because I'm in the same boat.
- You're in the same boat, a team on each side and you're rowing against each other.
- And I also want you to hear that you're in great company because we had hundreds and hundreds of comments from people who are all in the same boat.
- You know, you're still you're still in the same boat with so many film makers in the same generation that it has to be daunting in some ways.
- Then the sense that we're all in the same boat starts to dissipate because it's easier to say, well, move to the suburbs and build more prisons, you know, it's not my problem.
- So put me in the same boat you putting Ralph Lauren in.
Examples
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Everybody's in the same boat.
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A sense that they were in the same boat and that they needed to look out for each other prevailed.
Academic text (1997) -
You and I are in the same boat, my friend.
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You two are in the same boat.
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We're both in the same boat.
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I am in the same boat.
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I feel a lot better knowing so many people are in the same boat.
Blog text (1) -
Truth is, we are all ending up in the same boat now.
Blog text (15) -
I'm in the same boat as you.
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We are all in the same boat, friends, Lamar thinks as he looks out at the round-shouldered men.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
51
3.6
People who share the same problem and help each other
In the same situation as someone else
Antonyms
How Similar
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3.4
- Informal
34
3.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
The expression relies on a conventional metaphorical mapping (being together in a boat = being in the same situation), so a learner who knows 'in', 'same' and 'boat' can often infer that it means sharing circumstances. However, this requires a non-literal extension from physical location to situation; the meaning is guessable and cross-linguistically common but not strictly compositional or fully predictable, so it is only partially transparent.
Etymology
In the same boat comes from the image of people packed into one small boat during a storm, all facing the same danger and needing to help each other. That's why it now means 'having the same problems'.