whatever floats your boat

The earliest evidence hints that the phrase originated in the late 1970s among pleasure boaters in the United States.

• "You can achieve a non-ordinary or altered state with drugs, drumming, dancing, fasting, meditation, whatever floats your boat—floats it into the beyond, that is."
• "You can fill your life with love / You can fill your life with owt / You can fill your lifе with food and drink / Or whatever floats your boat"

• whatever butters your biscuit
• whatever butters your biscuits
• whatever butters your bread
• whatever butters your muffin
• whatever butters your toast
• whatever humps your camel
• whatever melts your butter
• whatever sizzles your bacon
• whatever tickles your pickle
• whatever winds your clock

• do one's own thing
• float someone's boat
• go one's own way
• have it coming
• have it your way
• it's your funeral
• suit yourself
• whatever helps you sleep at night
• you do you