{"id":20640,"date":"2021-03-09T17:34:09","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T17:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=20640"},"modified":"2021-03-09T17:34:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T17:34:11","slug":"in-the-same-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=20640","title":{"rendered":"In the Same Boat"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Over the past year, and before, we’ve often been told that we’re all “in the same boat”<\/strong>, at least in the UK. The intention is to suggest that we are all in a similar situation or predicament, and the expression is often used by those in positions of power, wealth and privilege.<\/p>\n

The idea of being in the same boat meaning ‘having the same fate’ first appeared in writing in 1584 in Thomas Hudson’s translation of Du Bartas’ Historie of Judith<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

\nhaue ye paine ? so likewise paine haue we :
\nFor in one bote we both imbarked be.
\nVpon one tide, one tempest doeth vs tosse,
\nYour common ill, it is our common losse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It appeared more or less in the current form in writing by Thomas Taylor, a British cleryman in 1629. He said:<\/p>\n

\nHe is in the same boate which is tossed and threatned with the tempest, and is someway interessed in the common cause, and quarrell.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Source: phrases.org.uk<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Equivalents of this phrase in French include:<\/p>\n