never sick at sea

Definitions

Having all the qualifications and abilities one could possibly ask for (or almost, anyway)

Examples

“Claude Augustus had not been in prison, so he said; was not a bigamist, was never sick at sea, and all those things they ask⟳ Tommies were all right about him, anyhow.”

“My final thought on all of my local and national on-air colleagues that I've befriended and respected for all these decades: I'm not knocking them, but while most morning show⟳ hosts and radio and TV sportscasters and anchors went home to their wives and kids an hour or more outside of Toronto to play⟳ it safe, I went out. I lived it. I always answered the bell and was never sick at sea. Well, almost never.”

“Farmington School is forever endeared to us for having given us a sailoress secretary, who is 'never never sick at sea,' and is a member of our family—Miss⟳ Eleanor Cushman, of New Bedrord whaling ancestry.”

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