miss the boat

Speech parts

1. miss the boat - Verb

2. miss the boat - Phrase

Meaning

miss the boat (third-person singular simple present misses the boat, present participle missing the boat, simple past and past participle missed the boat)

(intransitive) To fail to take advantage of an opportunity; to overlook or be too late to pursue an option or course of action.
The price discount ended yesterday and I just missed the boat on a great deal.
As for food delivery technology, our company missed the boat, the harbor, and the ocean.

Synonyms

Antonyms

Examples

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. Mark Twain

I never was really into comics as a child, and I think if you miss the boat when you're a kid, you don't necessarily pick up on it when you're an adult. Victoria Pratt

But it’s still very easy for them to miss the boat on some of the in-the-trenches work it takes to be a good real-estate agent. Source: Internet

I think there’s a tendency in the anti-trafficking community to say that awareness raising is the main component of prevention, and we often miss the boat on things like what are the push-and-pull factors that make people enter trafficking. Source: Internet

So sooner or later, we could either miss the boat or the boat will continue moving. Source: Internet

Words in the phrase

Close letter words and terms