swim the Tiber

English

Alternative forms

• cross the Tiber

Verb

swim the Tiber (third-person singular simple present swims the Tiber, present participle swimming the Tiber, simple past swam the Tiber, past participle swum the Tiber)

1. (intransitive) To convert to Catholicism.

Related terms

• swim the Bosphorus (“convert to Eastern Orthodoxy”)
• swim the Forth (“convert to Presbyterianism”)
• swim the Rhine (“convert to Lutheranism”)
• swim the Thames (“convert to Anglicanism”)