a rising tide lifts all boats
A truly good outcome benefits all.
Whereas in the 1960s, incomes rose as the economy grew—to use President Kennedy's phrase, “a rising tide lifts all the boats”—this no longer applied in the 1980s.
rising
/ˈɹaɪzɪŋ/
noun 3adj 3name 2prep 1
Collocations
4(noun.)
ADJ
military, peasant
VERB + RISING
participate in, take part in | lead
crush, put down, suppress
The army worked hard to suppress the rising before it could spread to other cities.
Definitions
noun
1
Rebellion.
2
The act of something that rises.
the risings and fallings of a thermometer
Still talking—more to herself than to the children—she swam into a majestical dance of the stateliest balancings, the haughtiest wheelings and turnings aside, the most dignified sinkings, the gravest risings, all joined together by the elaboratest interlacing steps and circles.
3
A dough and yeast mixture which is allowed to ferment.
salt rising
milk rising
adj
1
Going up, physically or in quantity, rate, etc.
2
Planned or destined to advance to an academic grade in the near future, after having completed the previous grade; soon-to-be.
A student in the rising Senior Freshman Class, who may not have passed the preceding Michaelmas Examination, will be allowed to join the School and attend Lectures during Michaelmas Term, for which he will receive credit, on condition that he passes the ensuing Hilary Examination with the Senior Freshman Class.
Residential colleges at Princeton are “really central to your identity on campus,” especially as a freshman, Ms. Chaffers, who is a rising junior, said in an interview on Saturday.
3
Having its wings raised (either addorsed or sometimes displayed), standing on the tips of its feet as if about to take flight, typically depicted in profile.
prep
1
More than; exceeding; upwards of.
Affairs in Canada, with a population that had grown to rising ten thousand, seemed to be going from worse to worse.
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the risings and fallings of a thermometer
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Still talking—more to herself than to the children—she swam into a majestical dance of the stateliest balancings, the haughtiest wheelings and turnings aside, the most dignified sinkings, the gravest
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salt rising
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A student in the rising Senior Freshman Class, who may not have passed the preceding Michaelmas Examination, will be allowed to join the School and attend Lectures during Michaelmas Term, for which he
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Residential colleges at Princeton are “really central to your identity on campus,” especially as a freshman, Ms. Chaffers, who is a rising junior, said in an interview on Saturday.
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Affairs in Canada, with a population that had grown to rising ten thousand, seemed to be going from worse to worse.
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In some senses, rising is marked as dated, slang, US. Watch for register when choosing this word.
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