Idioms related to transportation.
Automobiles[]
In the driver's seat[]
Aviation[]
Fly by the seat of one's pants[]
Boating[]
Fresh off the boat[]
Meant to be newly arrived somewhere and therefore inexperienced.
In the same boat[]
If two or more people were in the same boat, the same situation applied to them.
When Harry Kim and Tom Paris were on a class Y planet and both their environmental suits leaked, Paris commented, "We're in the same boat, buddy!". (VOY: "Demon")
Smooth sailing[]
If something was smooth sailing, it was going well.
Sisko once claimed that after passing through the Denorios belt, the rest of the trip would be smooth sailing. (DS9: "Explorers")
Dax once used this expression to refer to passing through a temporal anomaly. When she was proven wrong, Sisko mockingly echoed her line. (DS9: "Children of Time")
Without a paddle[]
Meant to be without the ability to help oneself.
In 2375, after learning that Nog had borrowed a runabout and left Deep Space 9, Miles O'Brien complained that the Ferengi had left him "adrift, mid-river (the Great Material Continuum, that is) without a paddle". (DS9: "Treachery, Faith and the Great River")
Horseback[]
Hell for leather[]
Roads[]
Down the road[]
(DS9: "The Circle")
Get the show on the road[]
One for the road[]
"Road to recovery"[]
Vehicles[]
Bucket of bolts[]
Rust bucket[]
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