The analogy to missing a scheduled transport is fairly obvious and has been around since about 1900.

Yacht in etymology. Any of various recreational watercraft. The Merriiam-Webster dictionary dates the word back to 1526 and says that is is from the Old English scite and akin to a related word scitan and means to defecate. A seagoing vessel used only for pleasure trips racing etc.

As weve said those two compoundsjury-rigged and jerry-builtwere blended in the late 19th century to form jerry-rigged. They originally called it the Yacht Game because they played it on their yacht with their friends and it was also sort of based on an existing dice game called Yacht. Akin to Old Norse beit boat.

The four members of the Indian army were elephants horses. Miss the boatbus to To fail to take advantage of an opportunity. A large usually motor-driven craft used for pleasure cruising.

Yacht definition a vessel used for private cruising racing or other noncommercial purposes. I Yacht To manage a yacht. The original word for chess is the 6th century Sanskrit primary liturgical language of Hinduism word chaturanga चतरङग which translates to four arms and pronounced Chat-u-ranga.

Introduction Etymology refers to the origins and developments in the meaning of a word or a term. The earliest examples weve found begin in the 1890s and are from newspapers published in Australia. To voyage in a yacht.

See the etymology of Bot at the end of the entry of freedom Robot In 1923 Karl Capek a well-known Czech science-fiction writer at the time wrote a futuristic thriller about a nightmarish scenario in which the machines have taken over a la the Terminator and implanted circuitry in humans to make them into mindless zombies willing. Chatur चतरथ is Sanskrit for four and anga अङग means arms or limbs. With regard to when miss the boat originated Christine Ammer The Facts on File Dictionary of Clichés second edition 2006 has this for the phrase.