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all hands on deck!	Nautical call for all ships crew to come topside and man their usual station. Work challenge or approaching gale threatens safety of crew and vessel.	Rate it: (4.33 / 3 votes)
banyan day	In modern usage it refers to a picnic or cookout for the ship's crew.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
company	The entire crew of a ship.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
crew up	To join a crew	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
flog a dead horse	To attempt to get extra work out of a ship's crew during the dead horse period.	Rate it: (1.00 / 2 votes)
gandy dancer	A railway laborer, especially a member of a crew which carries rails and affixes them to ties.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
green hand	An inexperienced crew member of a 19th-century whaler on his first voyage.	Rate it: (3.33 / 3 votes)
lights, camera, action	The traditional cue to the members of a film crew at the beginning of a take.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
loose cannon	A cannon that breaks loose during battle or a storm and causes serious damage to the ship and its crew.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
make an example of	He made an example of the drunken sailor with twenty lashes, to show that he must have a sober crew.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
Mary Celeste	a British-flagged Nova Scotian brigantine that crossed the Atlantic Ocean, gone through the Straits of Gibraltar, and into the Mediterranean Sea under full sail, without a crew or any occupants.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
race queen	A glamorous model, part of the pit crew in Japanese motor racing.	Rate it: (2.50 / 2 votes)
set adrift	To send a ship, boat or raft out to sea without a crew or resources to steer it.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
skeleton crew	The minimum number of personnel needed to operate and maintain an item at its most simple operating requirements, such as a ship or business, during an emergency or shut down, and at the same time, to keep vital functions operating.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
try to get on first!	An encouraging expression to others to attempt a seemingly impossible task. The leader asks the crew to give it their best and try the "baseball theme".	Rate it: (1.00 / 1 vote)