at sea(1)

[at sea(1)] {adv.}

or {adj. phr.}

1. On an ocean voyage; on a journey by ship.

* /They had first met at sea./

2. Out on the ocean; away from land.

* /By the second day the ship was well out at sea./

* /Charles had visited a ship in dock, but he had never been on a ship at sea./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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