uncharted water

English

Noun

uncharted water (countable and uncountable, plural uncharted waters)

  1. An area of sea that has not been surveyed, or whose details have not been entered on nautical charts.
  2. (figuratively, by extension) Any unknown and potentially dangerous situation.
    • 1900, Walter Hines Page, Arthur Wilson Page, The World's Work ...: A History of Our Time
      That is the rock that he is in danger of, for he is going recklessly over uncharted waters.
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