on shipboard

on shipboard

Aboard a ship. I always feel so sick when I'm on shipboard, even when the seas are calm.
See also: on
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • on one's
  • on someone's
  • (I've) got to go
  • (Have you) been OK?
  • pillow-biter
  • out of one's
  • #dead
  • (it's) good to have you (here)
  • (it's) nice to have you (here)
  • save someone's skin
References in classic literature
A SAILOR, bound on a long voyage, took with him a Monkey to amuse him while on shipboard. As he sailed off the coast of Greece, a violent tempest arose in which the ship was wrecked and he, his Monkey, and all the crew were obliged to swim for their lives.
Fables
The patriarch, impatient to be gone, took leave in the most tender manner of the governor and his other friends, recommended our voyage to the Blessed Virgin, and in the field, before we went on shipboard, made a short exhortation, so moving and pathetic, that it touched the hearts of all who heard it.
Voyage to Abyssinia
I carried the manuscript back and forth across the Atlantic two or three times, and read it and studied over it on shipboard; and at last I saw where the difficulty lay.
Puddnhead Wilson
The Lady Arbella, looking paler than she did on shipboard, is sitting in her chair, and thinking mournfully of far-off England.
Grandfathers Chair
Landsmen on Shipboard.- Fresh-Water Sailors at Sea.- Lubber Nests.
Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountain
On shipboard he would be a sneak, a whiner, a tattler.
Martin Eden
You yourself wait until the season for sailing is come, and then haul your swift ship down to the sea and stow a convenient cargo in it, so that you may bring home profit, even as your father and mine, foolish Perses, used to sail on shipboard because he lacked sufficient livelihood.
Collection Of Hesiod Homer and Homerica
"The data we gathered will help us close the book on shipboard developmental test.
Navair public affairs news release (Dec. 8, 2004): Osprey completes final shipboard developmental testing