In dictionaries:
drowning out
near drowning
Submersion incident without fatal outcome.
drowning men
water drowning
Submersion in water causing suffocation.
dry drowning
Secondary drowning from delayed symptoms.
secondary drowning
Water-induced lung problems post-immersion.
drowning sorrows
a drowning man will clutch at a straw
Drowning Pool
an American rock band formed in Dallas, Texas, in 1996.
Drowning Mona
a 2000 American crime comedy film starring Danny DeVito as Wyatt Rash, a local police chief from Verplanck, New York, who investigates the mysterious death of Mona Dearly (Bette Midler), a spiteful, hard-drinking, loud-mouthed, abusive woman, hated by all who knew her, who drove her son's car off a cliff and drowned in a river.
Parable of the drowning man
The parable of the drowning man, also known as Two Boats and a Helicopter, is a short story, often told as a joke, most often about a devoutly Christian man, frequently a minister, who refuses several rescue attempts in the face of approaching floodwaters, each time telling the would-be rescuers that God will save him.
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