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Bookmark or Share- An idiom to describe "missing an opportunity or deadline"I found the phrase "miss the boat", but came to the conclusion that it's not very commonly used. I'm looking for something that's at least as common as "drop the ball". Another reason why I don't feel "miss the boat" is appropriate is that the opportunities I'm talking about here are smaller opportunities — nothing life-changing.
- What's the difference between 'left out' and 'missed out'?The phrasal verb miss out 'lose (an opportunity)' is intransitive, and requires a transitivizing preposition on when it indicates the opportunity that was missed. *They missed out the party. They missed out on the party. Since it's intransitive, miss out can't be used in the Passive. *The party was missed out. The example sentence given,
- Replacement for "narrowly missed?" - English Language & Usage Stack ...@japreiss - It is closer to your desired meaning than 'missed', because it does at least indicate a shortfall, whereas you can also miss by overshooting. – Erik Kowal Commented Dec 14, 2014 at 9:30
- What's the origin of the idiom "miss the boat"?"The A. F. of L. Missed the Boat" This title is taken from an editorial from "Business Week," once liberal business magazine. It is similar in tone to those in Raymond Moley's "Today," other business magazines, and the conservative newspapers, and is characterized by glee at the so-called defeat of the American Federation of Labor in the ...
- "The train will leave" vs. "is going to leave" vs. "leaves" vs. "is ...@Pacerier: I can't actually see anything in your link to support that assertion. In normal circumstances The train leaves at 8 and The train will leave at 8 are semantically equivalent - the only reason I can see for supposing that the latter might be more "certain, assertive" is that it then becomes at least possible to place stress on the word will (which definitely makes for a more ...
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