Statistics for Pirate Cliches

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Cliché	% Correct
Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of {rum}!	95%
Women and {children} first!	93%
walk the {plank}	92%
Shiver me {timbers}!	91%
sent to Davy Jones's {Locker}	88%
Thar she {blows}!	86%
Batten down the {hatches}!	81%
Fire in the {hole}!	79%
sleep with the {fishes}	76%
dead men tell no {tales}	75%
Fifteen men on the dead man's {chest}--	69%
three sheets to the {wind}	68%
{Land} ho!	63%
Well, blow me {down}!	60%
between the devil and the {deep} {blue} sea	54%
Spanish pieces-of-{eight}	54%
a shot across the {bow}	51%
Weigh {anchor} and hoist the mizzen!	49%
give no {quarter}	40%
All hands {abandon} ship,	27%
Stand by to repel {boarders}!	26%
the {Sun} is over the yardarm	19%
kiss the gunner's {daughter}	10%
a letter of {marque} and reprisal	9%