swim the Bosphorus

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Etymology

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Variant of swim the Tiber, by substitution of Istanbul's river Bosphorus for Rome's river Tiber.

Verb

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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)

  1. (intransitive) To convert to Eastern Orthodoxy.
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