Idiom Breakdown

fresh off the boat

DEROGATORY Human migration

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Definition

Newly arrived from a foreign place, especially as an immigrant who is still unfamiliar with the customs and language of their new environment.

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"You were fresh off the boat from Virginia / I had a year in New York City under my belt / We met in a dream, we were both nineteen"
"Metropolis is the story of a harmless, hapless, nameless young German immigrant, fresh off the boat in 1860-something, who has a knack for naively stumbling into complicated plots through no fault of his own."

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