splash down

splash down

 
verb phrase
1.
to land in a body of water in a returning spacecraft.
2.
(of a spacecraft) to land in a body of water.
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Origin:
1955–60, Americanism
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American Heritage
Idioms & Phrases

splash down

Land in water, as in The spacecraft splashed down within a few hundred yards of the pickup point. The splash in this idiom alludes to the impact of a solid body on water. [c. 1960]

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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