a rising tide lifts all boats
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.46 in modern English
31
Scrabble Score
24
Letters
4
Syllables
13
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Whereas in the 1960s, incomes rose as the economy grew—to use President Kennedy's phrase, “a rising tide lifts all the boats”—this no longer applied in the 1980s."
- "Hay and other early gay rights activists were influenced by the Black civil rights movement in a broader sense, too. The rising tide of African American organizing raised all boats, and the hopes of all whose dreams had been deferred."
Inflected Forms
a rising tide floats all boats (alternative)