whatever floats your boatとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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間投詞

whatever floats your boat

1. (originally US) Do whatever makes you happy or stimulates you.

   Synonym: suit yourself

   • 2025 May 17, James Parker, “Return of the Shaman”, in The Atlantic‎, →ISSN:

     You can achieve a non-ordinary or altered state with drugs, drumming, dancing, fasting, meditation, whatever floats your boat—floats it into the beyond, that is.

   • 2025, “The Hymn of the North”, in Jarvis Cocker (lyrics), More, performed by Pulp:

     You can fill your life with love / You can fill your life with owt / You can fill your lifе with food and drink / Or whatever floats your boat

派生語

参考

• float someone's boat
• whatever helps you sleep at night
• you do you
• do one's own thing
• have it your way
• go one's own way
• have it coming
• it's your funeral

参照

Further reading

• Charles Clay Doyle, Wolfgang Mieder, Fred R. Shapiro, editors (2012), “Whatever floats your boat”, in The Dictionary of Modern Proverbs, New Haven: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 23