be fresh off the boat AmE

Shiny new, they looked to be fresh off the boat.

His girlfriend's grandmother welcomes him to America, as if he were fresh off the boat.

Although the fish is fresh off the boats, everything else is hit-or-miss.

The passenger was a black guy, deeply blue-black, like he was fresh off the boat from Nigeria.

I love seafood and really enjoy the Waterbar (284 9922; waterbarsf.com), where the fish is fresh off the boat.

And, Eachran, if your taking about seafood, the best place is fresh off the boat in the West Highlands.

Most of them poor sods are fresh off the boat from Scotland-they don't know north from south, let alone just where they are."

Entrees include monkfish in a lemon-butter sauce, salmon, lobster and whatever is fresh off the boats, served on a waterfront terrace or in casual, wood-paneled rooms.

There, some 600 workers were employed in the manufacture of ladies' shirtwaists, most of them teenage girls who spoke little English and were fresh off the boat from Russia, the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Italy.

"Young Latinos from different groups will tend to gravitate to Puerto Ricans," Mr. Flores said, "because Puerto Ricans have been around, they know the ropes, they know the way of walking and talking, rather than being fresh off the boat, being greenhorns."