worse things happen at sea en · X
Meanings
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Things are not as bad as they seem.
Some people console themselves with the thought that, basically, worse things happen at sea: in middle-class Britain today, particularly familied fortysomethings, it’s Chicken-Licken time.
2015 September 13, Euan Ferguson, “The week in TV: Doctor Foster; Beck; Ballers; Hunted; The Queen’s Longest Reign: Elizabeth and Victoria”, in The Observer:
Translations (11)
it non e la fine del mondo (Translations) · pl mogłoby być gorzej (Translations) · es más se perdió en Cuba (Translations) · es que todos los males sean esos (Translations) · hu több is veszett Mohácsnál (Translations) · it non è la fine del mondo (Translations) · fi hätä ei ole tämän näköinen (Translations) · fr on a connu pire (Translations) · de (es) könnte schlimmer sein (Translations) · ar أَسْوَأُ أَمُوْرٍ تَحْدُثُ فِي البَحَر (Translations) · fr il y a pire dans la vie (Translations)