all hands to the pump
English edit
Phrase edit
- (chiefly UK) A situation where as many people as possible are required to contribute to some urgent enterprise.
- Synonym: all hands on deck
Further reading edit
- “all hands to the pump” (US) / “all hands to the pump” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
- “all hands to the pump”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “all hands on deck” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.