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on the beach

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

Removed or retired from an active shipboard position in the navy or merchant navy.

idiomatic

Examples

“Ericson had been axed from the navy in 1927, after ten years’ service: he had been on the beach for two hard years[.]”
“[O]fficers received only half pay⟳ when not on active service. Even Horatio Nelson spent five years “on the beach”[.]”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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