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APAD: Push the boat out.

7grizzly
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Meaning:

   To spend generously. To spend more than one is normally accustomed to doing,

   often to mark a special occasion.

 

Background:

   This phrase originates with the literal meaning, that is, pushing boats from

   wherever they are beached and into the water. People have for centuries built

   boats that were too large for an individual to move. Helping a seaman to push

   the boat out was an act of generosity - a similar to the modern-day act to

   helping to push a car that is broken down.      

 

   The phrase became used in UK nautical circles to mean `buy a round of drinks`

   sometime during the 1930s.

 

   By 1946, John Irving had listed the term as Royal Navy slang,

 

     "Push the boat out, to, a boatwork term used to imply paying for a 'round

     of drinks'."

 

   More recently, `push the boat out' has been used more generally and has come

   to mean `behave extravagantly; making a purchase that is rather beyond what

   one can afford'.

             

- www.phrases.org.uk [edited]

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My friend Louis played a great defense game as he had three kids to support. He

drove a 12-year-old Honda Civic, remodeled his own house, and with the help of a

makeup mirror, cut his own hair. He rarely pushed the boat out, except when it

came to ultra marathons.

          

He turned into a running fiend at the tender age of 52 and over time his wife

and kids joined, first to cheer him on and then beside him. The family traveled

and raced somewhere in the country every month or two. Last year, the

65-year-old came back from a visit to Madeira (Portugal), where his folks lived,

and showed me the insane rocky trails of a 100-miler he'd run on the island.

 

One more thing about him. All the years we worked together, I never saw him

sick.

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最西边的岛上
2 楼
Nice! isn't today theDay 2Push theBoatOut? Happy July 4th!
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最西边的岛上
3 楼
kudos to Louis! real people & real lives. Thx 4 sharing. :-)
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7grizzly
4 楼
Thanks! Stores are closed but there must be a way to push or
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7grizzly
5 楼
this wouldn't be called the land of the free, haha :-)
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7grizzly
6 楼
Thanks for liking. That guy is something else!
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移花接木
7 楼
Everyone's carrying a specific mission to the world,

Fulfill it and off we go

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暖冬cool夏
8 楼
I still drive a 25-yr Honda Accrd. 某人cut his own hair 2:))
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暖冬cool夏
9 楼
He learnt it during pandemic and has since enjoyed doing it.
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天边一片白云
10 楼
I don’t have a boat to push out, I’ll remember this idiom.
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天边一片白云
11 楼
Like all the stories you wrote. Very interesting.
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最西边的岛上
12 楼
赞!! ourAccordJust turned 20 & I'm theBarber 4 hubby ;-))
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最西边的岛上
13 楼
that remindsMe: we doHave a 16' canoe 2carryOut, ;-))
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天边一片白云
14 楼
So you can push the boat out once in a while.
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最西边的岛上
15 楼
yes, summerOnly, I sit inFront, hubbyInBack=real driver ;-)
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天边一片白云
16 楼
You are truly handy. My hubby is the barber for himself.
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天边一片白云
17 楼
Less trouble than going out and get hair cut.
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7grizzly
18 楼
For some, no need to push, the mission will come to them:-))
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7grizzly
19 楼
what's your milage? my car's close to 210k now.
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7grizzly
20 楼
Yes! Take the right, no, the privilege, of haircutting back!
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7grizzly
21 楼
Make the haircut great again! :-)))
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7grizzly
22 楼
Thank you, my friend. Appreciate it.
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7grizzly
23 楼
You belong to the 0.0001% canoed class&should push more :-))
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7grizzly
24 楼
Ordinary barber, extraordinary courage :-))
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最西边的岛上
25 楼
haha, I almost failed physed class in Uni, as

 I couldn't run 800M in required time, so the teacher let me do 50M swimming. The swimming pool was dirty, so the teacher might not see me walking a bit in the middle, instead of all swimming. Or maybe he did, but felt sorry and let me pass 

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7grizzly
26 楼
He was praying: "Please. Don't kill yourself" as he did
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7grizzly
27 楼
when you made the shot put? :-)))
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最西边的岛上
28 楼
hahaha, it's myTurn 2makeOthersLaugh, myTreat ;-))
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暖冬cool夏
29 楼
Mine is
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