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
Doroteja	-	Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian
Savannah	sə-VAN-ə	English
Silas	['sailəs]
JeremÍAs	he-re-MEE-ahs	Spanish
Jaala	-	Biblical
Lottie	-	English, Swedish