rock the boat
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.54 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To disturb the status quo or go against rules or conventions, as in an effort to get attention.
Example Sentences
- "I'd just jump in and fix it, but that's not my job, and I don't want to rock the boat."
- "A lot of gay people I know, female and male, are conservative — perhaps even more conservative than they would be if they were non-gay because they've had such a hard struggle in life, they don't want to rock any boats."
- "Just when I'm asking myself if it's worth it to rock the boat and wondering if I should compromise, something will happen to keep me going. Like one year I got an award from a women's group for, "exposing the jockocratic values of society."
- "But they're [Rupture] quite the opposite- they're very respectful of other people. They say offensive things to rock the boat and cause some turmoil in the world of safe, homogenized P.C. punk rock."