swim the Bosphorus
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English
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Etymology
[edit]Variant of swim the Tiber, by substitution of Istanbul's river Bosphorus for Rome's river Tiber.
Verb
[edit]swim the Bosphorus (third-person singular simple present swims the Bosphorus, present participle swimming the Bosphorus, simple past swam the Bosphorus, past participle swum the Bosphorus)
- (intransitive) To convert to Eastern Orthodoxy.
Related terms
[edit]- swim the Forth (“convert to Presbyterianism”)
- swim the Rhine (“convert to Lutheranism”)
- swim the Thames (“convert to Anglicanism”)
- swim the Tiber (“convert to Roman Catholicism”)