at sea
Prepositional phrase
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Prepositional phrase
- Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see at, sea
- 1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, OCLC 5661828 ↗:
- It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.
- (idiomatic) In a state of confusion or bewilderment.
- Most of the class was at sea after the first week.
- French: en mer
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