Phoebe Waller-Bridge

No one would touch me with a barge pole as an actress. It hit hard. I thought, 'What am I doing? This is a stupid idea!' It's like throwing yourself into a massive pond, and you feel like you're going to drown so quickly.

English Actress

David de Gea

In training, the players would deliberately hit high balls into me and barge into me so I'd get used to that side of the English game. I actually enjoy the physical side of it now.

Spanish Athlete

Ronnie Wood

All my family back to the 1700s were water Gypsies. My brothers and me, we were the first ones to be born on dry land. All the rest of them were born on barges in the canals.

English Musician

Alan Ladd

I'm shy and can't for the life of me barge around and slap people on the back. I sit in a corner by myself and am tickled to death when someone comes over to talk to me.

American Actor

Simon Beaufoy

I used to live on a barge - it is incredibly good to write near water. There is an ever-changing landscape, so you never get bored.

British Writer

Dillian Whyte

You have to fight hard to get where you want to be. I never had any backing. I just had to kick the door down and barge through.

British Athlete

Pete Townshend

I bought a Dutch barge and turned it into a recording studio. My plan was to go to Paris and record rolling down the Seine.

British Musician

Terry Southern

Sometimes we would be staked out in the middle of the river, several barges tied together. So we could party.

American Writer

Alexander Armstrong

I lived on a barge for the first six months, with a cousin. Then on the floor of a friend's house.

English Actor

Jo Cox

I live on a big old Dutch barge by Tower Hill on the Thames.

British Politician

Refers specifically to vessels on waterways, not ocean-bound ships.

Water Transport

Barges can carry heavy or bulky cargo that might be difficult to transport by road.

Cargo Capacity

Barges are often towed or pushed by other vessels, unlike most boats.

Not Self-Propelled

Used to describe someone moving in a forceful, clumsy way, often unintentionally.

Physical Action

When someone barges, it usually implies they have ignored social etiquette.

Lack of Politeness

More commonly used in informal conversation than in formal contexts.

Casual Usage

Associated with events or celebrations, often implying a festive atmosphere.

Social Gatherings

Party barges can be customized for different types of occasions.

Variety of Events

Implies causing a disturbance when entering a space or conversation.

Disruptive Entrance

Indicates an interruption that's often seen as impolite.

Conversation Etiquette

 from utilitarian rafts to the Doge's own ostentatious gilded barge. Like a modern day taxi system, gondolas were leased to boatmen who made the rounds of the city's ferry stations. Passengers paid a fare to be carried from one side of the Grand Canal to the other, as well as to other points around the city.

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 Here's one the Russians are already building that floats on a barge. And that would be very interesting in the developing world. Typically, these things are put in the ground. They're referred to as nuclear batteries. They're incredibly safe, weapons proliferation-proof and all the rest of it.

Debate: Does the world...

 and barges into court, and screams, "Judge! I just came by to see how you were doing." I had been monitoring her case for a couple of months, her compliance with her medication, and had just closed out her case a couple of weeks ago. On this day she needed help, and she came to court.

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 there was another way using the rising water level to their advantage movers proposed encasing the temple inside an immense concrete barge then as the water level rose the temple would be floated to safety a brilliant idea but it would take over six years for the waters to raise the

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 they're loaded onto a barge where family and friends often draw their own PostScript to a loved one's life with the fish and then the eye above it that sort of kind of reminds me of like grandpa seeing everything going on around it

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 long barge that's the Ark it's really important to to create a safety net at break up here so I'm gonna have to get some boats put together get it set up for dogs have some food in there some water in there because you never know

Preparing for Breakup PIPE...

 massive stash of mob loot including hundreds if not thousands of pinball machines now on one of these dumps the police commissioner turns to reporter on the barge and he tells them if anybody wants to go dig this stuff up now

Tales from a modern...

 giraffe yes yeah that's our go-to nickname the team secured some funding to help the giraffes and that paid for the creation of the giraffe so it's this barge and to make it they had to come up with this sort of

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 but she said I didn't have to do that. But when you're in that room, you feel like you're on a kind of barge on some kind of lake. And it's very private.

Frank Gehry: From 1990,...

 the males barge and jostle one another to reach her and several may succeed one after the