pull a good oar in English
be a skilled rower, be good at rowing
Use "pull a good oar" in a sentence
1. Somebody would have to pull the working oar on that boat.
2. The oar broke with a snap.
3. By good fortune Hunter pulled a good oar. We made the water fly; and the boat was soon alongside, and I aboard the schooner.
4. Everybody grab an oar.
5. We each took an oar.
6. “A long pull, a strong pull, and a pull all together.”
7. The oar struck against something hard.
8. Waving your big fluorescent oar around, attracting a bunch of attention.
9. That little curvy bit the oar sits in?
10. Centenaque Arbore fluctum verberat adsurgens ― an oar
11. Alan bet you you weren't a good enough dentist to pull out your own tooth.
12. He pulled an oar in the winning shell.
13. And after Sulla had him killed, he held up his head in the forum and looked into the boy's dead eyes and said, " First, you must learn to pull an oar.
14. Pull, Lemuel, pull!
15. So there's another guy trying to steer with a big, heavy sweep oar.
16. Neither a club nor a knife: something more like a rowing oar, perhaps, considering our location.
17. We were getting along fine until you stuck your oar in.
18. PETER strained against the oar and peered into the night.
19. It's no good trying to pull the wool over Harlod's eyes, he's far too perceptive.
20. The occasional dip of an oar rippled the lake's glassy surface.
21. We took one oar each and rowed quickly to the shore.
22. I know how to mend a fuse and I don't need you shoving your oar in!
23. A valance of stones appeared in mid-air and fell, knocking oar blades and oarsmen.
24. You want a pull?
25. You pull trigger, I pull flush.