Float Your Boat (Idioms)

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Welcome to English in a Minute!

You need water for a boat to float. But in American English, just about anything can float your boat. Let’s listen.

Float Your Boat

Speaker A: Anna, are you reading another children’s book?
Speaker B: Yes! I read about two a week.
Speaker A: Wow. Well, whatever floats your boat.
Speaker B: Children’s books have magic and adventure! What’s not to love?

If something “floats your boat”, it makes you happy! Sometimes we say whatever floats your boat when we don’t fully understand why someone likes something so much. People probably say this to Anna quite a bit.

And that’s English in a Minute!

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*This article has been edited and reprinted from VOA Learning English with permission from Voice of America (VOA) for use in English language materials.