all hands on deck
Everyone pitch in
All hands on deck calls for everyone available to help with an urgent task.
The phrase comes from naval commands summoning the entire crew to the ship's deck during emergencies.
Now it applies to any situation requiring full participation: It's all hands on deck for the product launch tomorrow.
Sometimes shortened to all hands.
- crewWorking team aboard
- ship shapeNeat and well-organized
- figure of speechNonliteral expressive phrase
- captainOne who commands
- teamworkJoint effort toward shared aim
crisis · emergency · cooperation · collaboration · pull together · scramble · effort · collective · the whole shebang · crunch time · coordination · mobilization · preparedness · full steam ahead · unity · metonymy · drop everything · call to arms
- labor idiomsnose to the grindstone, burning the midnight oil, pull your weight, crunch time, work like a dog
- workjob, 9 to 5, jobs, labor, employee
- nautical termsahoy, afloat, aye aye, aye-aye, becalmed
- Nautical Idiomsbatten down the hatches, smooth sailing, three sheets to the wind, in the same boat, rock the boat
- pirate talkahoy, arr, argh, aye, aye aye
- travel idiomshit the road, in the same boat, miss the boat, end of the road, crossroads
all hands on deckskeleton crew
Minimum workers needed
skeleton staff · understaffed · short-handed · running on empty · bare minimum
all hands on deckstand down
Withdraw from readiness
at ease · business as usual · stand easy · off duty · as you were
all hands on deckstand down
Withdraw from readiness
at ease · business as usual · downtime · off duty · rest period