Thursday, September 16, 2004

Today's OED antedating: "to rock the boat"

To rock the boat, figurative, colloquial, to disturb the status quo ("boat," n., sec 1 (d), first use cited 1931): Untitled item by Franklin P. Adams, New York Tribune, January 2, 1914, p 6, col 3: "Sit Down, You’re Rocking the Boat."