never sick at sea

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短语
  1. Having all the qualifications and abilities one could possibly ask for (or almost, anyway)
    — Claude Augustus had not been in prison, so he said; was not a bigamist, was never sick at sea, and all those things they ask Tommies were all right about him, anyhow.

词源

A phrase that comes from a verse in H.M.S. Pinafore, an 1878 comic opera:
Captain: I am never known to quail At the fury of a gale, and I'm never, never sick at sea!
All: What, never?
Captain: No, never!
All: What, never?
Captain: Hardly ever!
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