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alt. (context idiomatic English) Out of difficulty, especially financial. prep.phr. (context idiomatic English) Out of difficulty, especially financial.
Usage examples of "above water".
As it neared the middle of the bay it slowly submerged until only a conning tower was left above water, and with that cutting the waves it headed to the open sea.
He helped Mike fill the boat until just the gunwales were above water.
Mozart had taken five, and the only music playing in her head was the choppy, unmelodious rhythm of her own humming as she tread to keep her head above water.
For though other species of whales find their food above water, and may be seen by man in the act of feeding, the spermaceti whale obtains his whole food in unknown zones below the surface.
It was twelve foot wide and about fifteen or sixteen foot long, and the top stood above water six or seven inches—.
It befell that somewhere near the second hour of night, the moon being overcast at the time--for there were threats of a storm in the sky--the sentinel on the eastern wall heard a sound of splashing in the moat below, accompanied by the stertorous breathing of a swimmer whose mouth is not well above water.
When that sort of economic powerhouse expanded into the vicinity of star systems which could scarcely keep their heads above water, the train of events leading to eventual incorporation extended itself with the inevitability of entropy.
In fact, I had to go back and moonlight in the laundry just to keep our heads above water.
I say, that the motion of a Sperm Whale's flukes above water dispenses a perfume, as when a musk-scented lady rustles her dress in a warm parlor.
I say, that the motion of a Sperm Whale's flukes above water dispenses a perfume, as when a musk-scented lady rustles her dress in a warm parlour.
Ah, Jack, if you want to keep your head above water, old friend, you must try your fortune away from me.
He should have drowned, but Pete and Susie wedged him between them and kept him above water.
She was leaning over, with part of her upper deck above water, and you could see every little chimbly-guy clean and clear, and a chair by the big bell, with an old slouch hat hanging on the back of it, when the flashes come.
Even as Overgaard watched, the shattered ship settled to the bottom with only the very top of her stern galleries still above water.