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