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| work = IMO RESOLUTION A.893(21) adopted on 25 November 1999

| accessdate=March 26, 2007}}</ref> This saying the nautical equivalent of "Take the lay of the land": see how things are going, or see what people think about a proposed course of action. {{Citation needed|date=December 2008}}

* "By and large" comes from a term for sailing a ship slightly off of the wind.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2001-04-18 |title=What is the origin of "by and large"? [http|url=https://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/190821343048/what-is-the-origin-of-by-and-large] |access-date=2024-11-27 |website=The Straight Dope |language=en}}</ref>

* "To the bitter end" may have originally referred to a rope fastened to the ''[[Bitts|bitt]]'', a post attached on the deck of a ship.[http,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-12-11 |title=The Bitter End - Meaning & Origin Of The Phrase |url=https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/65800the-bitter-end.html], |access-date=2024-11-27 |website=Phrase Finder |language=en-gb}}</ref> although this etymology has been disputed.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Quinion |first=Michael |author-link=Michael Quinion |date=2009-11-12 |title=Bitter end [http|url=https://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-bit1.htm] |access-date=2024-11-27 |website=World Wide Words |language=en-gb}}</ref>

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* {{cite book |title= Ship of state: the nautical metaphors of Thomas Jefferson : with numerous examples by other writers from classical antiquity to the present |last= Miller |first= Charles A. |authorlink= Charles A. Miller (political scientist) | year= 2003 |publisher= University Press of America |___location= Lanham, MD |isbn= 978-0-7618-2516-6 }}

* {{cite journal |author1=Milligan, Christopher S. |author2=Smith, David C. | title=Language from the Sea: Discovering the Meaning and Origin of Nautical Metaphors| journal=English Quarterly| year=1997| volume=28| issue=4| pages=36–40}}

* {{cite web |url=http://www.history.navy.mil/library/online/indoc_term.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060603020707/http://www.history.navy.mil/library/online/indoc_term.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 3, 2006 |title=Service Jargon |author=Naval Air Station Jacksonville |date=1942 |work= 9780070328778A-V(S) Indoctrination School |publisher=Department of the Navy |accessdate=June 17, 2010}}

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