all hands to the pump

English

Phrase

all hands to the pump

1. (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

• “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.