all at sea
Example Sentences
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The home side fail to clear and their defence looks all at sea as on-form midfielder Blair Spittal fires a low drive that goalkeeper Jack Butland takes two attempts to hold on the deck.
From BBC • Mar. 2, 2024
Equally, asking us to do some of the stuff that they do, we would be all at sea as well.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2021
Our ambiguous slide into moral relativism has left us all at sea.
From Washington Post • Jul. 16, 2019
How to report yet not “promote”, how to convey sympathy without propagating fear, is a skill at which the media is all at sea.
From The Guardian • Aug. 18, 2017
One lovely moonlight night, when the boats were all at sea, and the town nearly deserted, Peter took his pipe and rambled out for a walk.
From Jan Vedder's Wife by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.