WHEN Lorene Yue first saw Wai Gen Yee, she said she assumed he was an F.O.B. -- a Fresh Off the Boat immigrant.
Driving the boat before a fresh westerly, Maloney was on the wheel when Orange hit 38.6 knots down the face of a steep wave, the top speed recorded on the trip thus far.
In the wake of the medevac legislation – allowing for those detained on Manus Island and Nauru to be transferred to Australia for medical treatment – the prime minister, Scott Morrison, has claimed the new measures will propel a fresh wave of asylum seeker boats on to Australian shores.
WITH piercing blue eyes and ruddily handsome Celtic features, Mr. Breitbart looked more like a fresh-off-the-boat Irish storyteller than the son of a banker mother and restaurateur father in Brentwood.
William takes the policy and does his best to drive away her suitors (one is played by a fresh-off-the-boat Errol Flynn) but to no one's surprise ends up falling for her himself.
We have a backward and uncouth dad, a deceitful daughter (veiled up for daddykins but living it up on the sly), and a fresh-off-the-boat, wet-behind-the-ears, thickly accented son-in-law, who has become a policeman in the new series.
He's like a fresh-off-the-boat guy who's been here like 15 years.
Tong – speaking in character – refutes this, stating that "a FOB is a fresh-off-the-boat immigrant that come all the way from China to study in North America.
In 1992, I was a fresh-off-the-boat graduate student in the US. Bill Clinton was running for president against George H.W. Bush.
She might also be lured in away in her hometown, with promises of marriage or work on the stage; on occasion, she was a fresh-faced, off-the-boat immigrant.
It doesn't matter if you're black, a woman, fresh off the boat, or just washed up in a deflated inner tube barely clinging to life.
