swim the Tiber
English
Alternative forms
Verb
swim the Tiber (third-person singular simple present swims the Tiber, present participle swimming the Tiber, simple past swam the Tiber, past participle swum the Tiber)
- (intransitive) To convert to Catholicism.
Related terms
- swim the Bosphorus (“convert to Eastern Orthodoxy”)
- swim the Forth (“convert to Presbyterianism”)
- swim the Rhine (“convert to Lutheranism”)
- swim the Thames (“convert to Anglicanism”)
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