Meaning of rock the boat | Babel Free

Definitions

To disturb the status quo or go against rules or conventions, as in an effort to get attention.

idiomatic

Equivalents

Examples

“I'd just jump in and fix it, but that's not my job, and I don't want to rock the boat.”

“A lot of gay people I know, female and male, are conservative — perhaps even more conservative than they would be if they were non-gay because they've had such a hard struggle in life, they don't want to rock any boats.”

“Just when I'm asking myself if it's worth it to rock the boat and wondering if I should compromise, something will happen to keep me going. Like one year I got an award from a women's group for, "exposing the jockocratic values of society.”

“But they're [Rupture] quite the opposite- they're very respectful of other people. They say offensive things to rock the boat and cause some turmoil in the world of safe, homogenized P.C. punk rock.”

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