To be in the same boat is to face the very same difficult situation as others. We are all in the same boat, in the same boat as everybody else.
It is said to create fellow feeling, and it works because the trouble is shared rather than compared. It nearly always describes a difficulty rather than good fortune.
1phrasein the same boatFacing the very same difficult situation as the others.
“Every small shop on the street is in the same boat this winter.”
in the same boat is a phrase.
Practised in Idioms