row your boat

Work the oars

Row your boat is a phrase from the children's song "Row, Row, Row Your Boat," often invoked to suggest someone should mind their own business or focus on their own affairs: Just row your boat and let me handle this.

The full lyric—"row your boat gently down the stream"—sometimes appears in advice about taking life easy or going with the flow.

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downstream · life · dream · canoe · sing · nursery · rhythm · stroke · nursery rhyme · water · current · lazy river · glide · song · children · sing along · round · melody

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propulsion method

row your boatdrift

Gradual movement, no direction

jet ski · speedboat

agency and effort

row your boatdrift

Gradual movement, no direction

float · drop anchor

Family

your, boat, rows, rowing, rower, rowers, yours, yourself, yourselves

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G