| 单词 | rock the boat |
| 释义 | rock the boatrock the boat informalPROBLEM to cause problems for other members of a group by criticizing something or trying to change the way something is done 〔通过批评某事或试图改变做事方式而〕生事；找麻烦 He kept his feelings to himself, not wanting to rock the boat. 他没有把自己的感受说出来，免得惹是生非。 Examples from the Corpus rock the boat• We have a pretty good life here. Why rock the boat?• If she didn't like it then it was her fault for rocking the boat.• Of course you rock the boat!• To refrain from rocking the boat.• Sixty percent of professors are moral cowards unwilling to rock the boat and therefore willing to tolerate the others.• Custom, practice and a tacit agreement not to rock the boat did the rest.• Judge Thurgood Marshall never hesitated to rock the boat, from the beginning of his long legal career.• Injuries to Strachan and Sterland rocked the boat last year.• As long as you don't rock the boat, nobody cares what you do.• Who the hell would want to rock the boat on a deal like that!• Waves from a passing freighter rocked the boat, Swensson says, throwing him to the deck. → rock the boat at rock2(1) |
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