go below
Leave the deck
Go below means to descend to a lower deck on a ship or boat: The captain ordered the passengers to go below during the storm.
The phrase belongs to nautical vocabulary, where "below" refers to spaces beneath the main deck—cabins, holds, engine rooms.
Outside maritime contexts, the expression is uncommon.
- go downMove to lower position
- head downFully concentrating on work
- beneathIn a lower position
- descendMove to lower position
- submergePlunge beneath liquid
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