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