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rock the boat

  1. Disturb a stable situation, as in An easygoing manager, he won't rock the boat unless it's absolutely necessary. This idiom alludes to capsizing a small vessel, such as a canoe, by moving about in it too violently. [Colloquial; early 1900s]



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“Right now I might say, ‘We don’t rock the boat, let’s not go to Toronto and Montreal.’

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Fabian remains a conundrum — is he just a “don’t rock the boat” ladder-climber or is it more sinister?

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That guarantee may no longer stand now she is has handed over the reins, although her approach was widely regarded as sensible and Amazon are unlikely to rock the boat too much.

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"We didn't want to rock the boat too much because he seemed like he knew exactly what he was doing," she said.

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"People don't like to rock the boat in the outer islands," she says.

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