fresh off the boat
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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
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
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
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