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* [[Fear of Thunder]]: Peggy, much to the scorn of her sister.
* [[Flying Dutchman]]: Mentioned in ''Peter Duck'', with the titular character said to be a perfect candidate for the crew of the ship as he hates having to go into ports.
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* [[Have a Gay Old Time]]: Yes, the second-youngest Swallow really is called Titty. Her real name is unknown. This was the nickname of Mavis Altounyan, upon whom Titty Walker is based; whether the fictional Titty is also named Mavis is never stated. No, this is never relevant to the story, though Ransome did once acknowledge its oddness: ''You must be John and you're Susan. And that's Roger. Which is the one with the funny name?'' (''Secret Water'')
** Averted in some reprints which change the name to "Tilly." Also in the 1962 BBC TV adaptation, which changed it to "Kitty".
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* [[Name and Name]] / [[The Noun and The Noun]]: "Swallows and Amazons" itself is something of a hybrid between these two title types, referring to their family nicknames.
** ''The Picts and the Martyrs'' plays The Noun and the Noun straight.
* [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain]]: In ''Great Northern?'', the only reason Captain Flint is convinced to stick around long enough to let Dick photograph the Great Northern Divers is that Mr. Jemmerling is so insistent on paying him for their eggs.
* [[Nobody Here but Us Birds]]: Frequently used throughout the series, including one hilarious moment when they forget that using owl-calls at noon may not be the best of ideas. Using owl calls as signals already seems to have been a [[Dead Horse Trope]] in adventure stories by this point, as the contemporaneously-written ''[[The Hobbit]]'' also mocks the practice.
* [[No Hugging, No Kissing]]: At all. Perfectly logical early on, but by ''Secret Water'' Nancy and Peggy are old enough for some of the other children with similar fantasy lives to call them 'missionaries', i.e. too old to be involved in the games. Nancy does not appreciate this.
* [[No New Fashions in The Future]]: Averted. When they leave a time capsule in ''Swallowdale'', Titty muses that it might not be found until many years have passed, 'when people wear quite different sorts of clothes'.
* [[Omnidisciplinary Scientist]]: Dick is one in training, being the authority on everything from astronomy to geology to ornithology.
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* [[Wham Episode]]: ''We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea''. After several books of imagining and being in little real danger, the Swallows end up stuck on a yacht and washed out to sea when her master sustains a head injury while ashore, and end up having to guide her through a storm to Holland by themselves. Particularly jarring compared to ''Peter Duck'', which was similarly perilous but specifically said to be just a story they made up.
** The earlier, gentler adventures ('Swallows And Amazons', 'Swallowdale' etc) have been described as' what we did on our holidays', and the later stories of high adventure ('Missee Lee', 'Peter Duck') as 'what we imagined we did on our holidays'. In 'Their Own Story', an early version of 'Peter Duck', Ransome made the distinction for said book. Also, both bear the inscription "based on information provided by the Swallows and Amazons", absent from other books.
* [[Where the Hell Is Springfield?]]: the lake they spend time around is actually an amalgam of two separate lakes in the district. The Hebridean locations in ''Great Northern?'' are said to be intentionally obscured to protect the titular birds.
** Averted, however, with the Coots books and ''Secret Water'', both of which are set in real places.
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