rising tide
Incoming ocean swell
A rising tide is water moving toward high tide, the sea level increasing as it approaches its peak.
The phrase appears most often figuratively: a rising tide of something means an increasing amount or intensity of it—a rising tide of anger, a rising tide of inflation.
The economic aphorism a rising tide lifts all boats suggests that general prosperity benefits everyone.
- swellIncrease in size
- surgeSudden powerful increase
- storm surgeWind-driven coastal flooding
- waveOscillating motion through medium
- floodOverwhelming water overflow
coastal flooding · rising waters · ocean · moon · current · shoreline · water line · sea level · harbor · lifting · boats · momentum · change · growth · prosperity · overflow · crest · seawater
- increasesincrease, gain, boost, hike, jump
- tidesebb, slack water, ebb and flow, flow, Bay of Fundy
- flats fishingflats, bonefish, tarpon, redfish, permit
- economicssupply and demand, inflation, GDP, GNP, gross domestic product
- money slangbucks, dough, moolah, cheddar, cash
- leadership termscaptain, shepherd, helmsman, navigator, pilot
rising tideebb tide
Receding ocean current
falling tide · ebb · low tide · low water · neap tide
rising tidefalling tide
Ocean's outward withdrawal
downward spiral · ebb · downturn · contraction · decline
rising tidesinking ship
Vessel filling with water
race to the bottom · vicious cycle · death spiral · mass exodus
rise, rises, rose, risen, riser, risers, uprising, uprisings, tide