when one's ship comes in

When one has made one's fortune, as in When my ship comes in I'll get a Mercedes or better. This term alludes to ships returning from far-off places with a cargo of valuables. It may be obsolescent. [Mid-1800s]

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
KerİMe	-	Turkish
Leticia	le-TEE-thyah (Spanish), le-TEE-syah (Latin American Spanish)	Spanish
Katheryn	KATH-ə-rin, KATH-rin	English
Tone (1)	-	Slovene
Luljeta	-	Albanian
Shrinivas	-	Indian, Marathi