The Ship Has Sailed

When you say small world or it's a small world It means that we are very connected in this world And even though there's so many people On the earth We're very closely related So for instance If you go on vacation into another country And you saw your neighbor on that vacation They just happen to be in the same place At the same time You can say wow Small world. This idiom is talking about Missing an imaginary boat It's like you showed up too late To get on the boat And the boat has already left Another way to say this idiom Is to say The ship has sailed This means that whatever the opportunity was Has gone away Just like a boat will sail away from you and

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