Idiom
on board
Meaning
Joining in or participating.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Are you on board with the new plan?”
“Everyone in the department is on board with the changes to our schedule.”
“The director spent hours convincing the skeptical investors, and by the end of the meeting, they were finally on board with her ambitious vision.”
Examples
simple
“Are you on board with the new plan?”
contextual
“Everyone in the department is on board with the changes to our schedule.”
complex
“The director spent hours convincing the skeptical investors, and by the end of the meeting, they were finally on board with her ambitious vision.”
Origin
Derived from the literal wooden boards comprising the deck of a ship. The phrase entered the language as a nautical reference to being situated within the vessel itself, rather than alongside it.
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