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not have both oars in the water

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.01 in modern English

Syllables
not have both- oars in the wa-ter
IPA
42
Scrabble Score
25
Letters
3
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To be crazy.

Slang

Usage

Questions

What does not have both oars in the water mean?
To be crazy.

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