"row in the same boat" meaning in English

See row in the same boat in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: rows in the same boat [present, singular, third-person], rowing in the same boat [participle, present], rowed in the same boat [participle, past], rowed in the same boat [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} row in the same boat (third-person singular simple present rows in the same boat, present participle rowing in the same boat, simple past and past participle rowed in the same boat)
  1. (idiomatic) To be in the same or similar situation. Tags: idiomatic Related terms: in the same boat
    Sense id: en-row_in_the_same_boat-en-verb-WQ198Kkw Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Download JSON data for row in the same boat meaning in English (1.6kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "rows in the same boat",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "rowing in the same boat",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "rowed in the same boat",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "rowed in the same boat",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "row in the same boat (third-person singular simple present rows in the same boat, present participle rowing in the same boat, simple past and past participle rowed in the same boat)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1986 April 26, James E. Lewis, Vernon J. Grant, “Why Build Hatred When There Was None To Begin With?”, in Gay Community News, page 5",
          "text": "If you wish to continue fighting amongst one another; if you wish to continue lying to and about each other; if you wish to continue believing rumors concerning one another, without knowing all the facts; if you wish to continue finding reasons to dissociate yourselves from others of a different race when, in fact, ALL OF US are prisoners rowing in the same boat; if you wish […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be in the same or similar situation."
      ],
      "id": "en-row_in_the_same_boat-en-verb-WQ198Kkw",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To be in the same or similar situation."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "in the same boat"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "row in the same boat"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "rows in the same boat",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "rowing in the same boat",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "rowed in the same boat",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "rowed in the same boat",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "row in the same boat (third-person singular simple present rows in the same boat, present participle rowing in the same boat, simple past and past participle rowed in the same boat)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "in the same boat"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1986 April 26, James E. Lewis, Vernon J. Grant, “Why Build Hatred When There Was None To Begin With?”, in Gay Community News, page 5",
          "text": "If you wish to continue fighting amongst one another; if you wish to continue lying to and about each other; if you wish to continue believing rumors concerning one another, without knowing all the facts; if you wish to continue finding reasons to dissociate yourselves from others of a different race when, in fact, ALL OF US are prisoners rowing in the same boat; if you wish […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be in the same or similar situation."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To be in the same or similar situation."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "row in the same boat"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.