Don’t miss the boat is a common phrase you’ll here in English to say ‘don’t lose this opportunity’. It’s one of those nice expressions that makes sense because you can visually see someone missing a physical boat would also mean that they lost the opportunity to experience the boat ride.
MISS THE BOAT
- to lose an opportunity because you were slow to act
- I feel like we really missed the boat by not calling him earlier. Now he’s already taken the other job.
- I was thinking about going to Malaga this summer, but I missed the boat. Everything is already booked up.
- Notice that we often use the word ‘miss’ and not ‘lose’ for things
- You can ‘miss’ a bus, a phone call, a plane and a boat’
- You can ‘lose’ things like your keys, your backpack and time.
Expressions in English
Now that you have seen post, take a look at our other Expression Session posts.
Expression Session: line someone’s pockets
Expression Session: put out fires
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