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at sea

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1. at sea - Phrase

2. at sea - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment

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Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea. William Howard Taft

Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea. Samuel Johnson

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea. Joseph Conrad

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea. Dutch Proverb

Better on the heath with an old cart that at sea in a new ship. Dutch Proverb

Better poor on land that rich at sea. Dutch Proverb

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