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| in the same boat |
| 1. adj. In the same situation or predicament; having the same problems. |
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| You can ignore their problems, but you could be in the same boat someday. |
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| Analysis |
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| in |
| 1. prep. Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits. |
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| 2. prep. Contained by. |
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| The dog is in the kennel. |
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| 3. prep. Within. |
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| 4. prep. Surrounded by. |
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| the |
| 1. art. Definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that an entity it articulates is presupposed; something already mentioned, or completely specified later in that same sentence, or assumed already |
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| I’m reading the book. (Compare I’m reading a book.) |
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| The street in front of your house. (Compare A street in Paris.) |
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| The men and women watched the man give the birdseed to the bird. |
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| 2. art. Used before a noun modified by a restrictive relative clause, indicating that the noun refers to a single referent defined by the relative clause. |
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| same |
| 1. adj. Not different or other; not another or others; not different as regards self; selfsame; identical. |
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| Are you the same person who phoned me yesterday? |
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| I realised I was the same age as my grandfather had been when he joined the air force. |
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| Even if the twins are identical, they are still not the same person, unlike Mark Twain and Samuel Clemens. |
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| Peter and Anna went to the same high school: the high school to which Peter went is the high school to which Anna went. |
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| boat |
| 1. n. A craft used for transportation of goods, fishing, racing, recreational cruising, or military use on or in the water, propelled by oars or outboard motor or inboard motor or by wind. |
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| 2. n. (poker slang) A full house. |
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| 3. n. A vehicle, utensil, or dish somewhat resembling a boat in shape. |
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| a stone boat; a gravy boat |
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| 4. n. (chemistry) One of two possible conformations of cyclohexane rings (the other being chair), shaped roughly like a boat. |
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