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Meaning of a rising tide lifts all boats | Babel Free

Phrase CEFR C2

Definitions

A truly good outcome benefits all.

Examples

“Whereas in the 1960s, incomes rose as the economy grew—to use President Kennedy's phrase, “a rising tide lifts all the boats”—this no longer applied in the 1980s.”
“Hay and other early gay rights activists were influenced by the Black civil rights movement in a broader sense, too. The rising tide of African American organizing raised all boats, and the hopes of all whose dreams had been deferred.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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