fresh off the boat
Example Sentences
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“I remember being fresh off the boat, thinking: ‘Wow, what is place?
From Seattle Times • Jan. 23, 2022
For Paddington, it's the Browns, the family who stumbled across him fresh off the boat and looking ever so lost at Paddington Station.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2015
"Four Immigrants" follows the lives of four guys, fresh off the boat from Japan, over the course of twenty years.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week, beribboned and jaunty, fresh off the boat from Japan, Colonel Murray had another, smaller key.
From Time Magazine Archive
If I were one of the people they were protesting, fresh off the boat, I would be sure I had just happened upon some community celebration, a festival of the culture.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
