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
Metropolis is the story of a harmless, hapless, nameless young German immigrant, fresh off the boat in 1860-something, who has a knack for naively stumbling into complicated plots through no fault of his own.
From Time Magazine Archive
The whole book is interleaved with reproductions of early advertisements, ranging from Colonial day notices of brandy fresh off the boat to Victorian plugs for high-wheeled gentlemen's velocipedes and high-heeled ladies' boots.
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
