English-Finnish translations for miss the boat

Definition of miss the boat

• To fail to take advantage of an opportunity; to overlook or be too late to pursue an option or course of action

Examples

• The price discount ended yesterday and I just missed the boat on a great deal

Related words

• miss the forest for the trees
• miss the mark
• miss the point
• miss the bus
• for one that is missing there's no spoiling a wedding
• miss each other
• thermionic emission
• thermoemission
• to the miser, everything is missing; to the poor, little; to the wise, nothing