ship of state

The nation, as in We can't help but wonder who will be steering our ship of state a hundred years from now . This metaphoric expression was first recorded in English in a translation of Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince (1675).

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Wally	WAHL-ee	English
MÍCheÁL	-	Irish
Hugubert	-	Ancient Germanic
Prasad	-	Indian, Telugu, Marathi, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Odia, Bengali, Nepali
Saul	SAWL (English)	Biblical, Jewish, Biblical Latin
Cleophas	KLEE-ə-fəs (English)	Biblical