fish out
Example Sentences
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Again, I feel like a fish out of water.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
If you went in hoping to fish out a couple of rocks and an old boot, though, it wasn’t so hard to locate exactly what you were looking for.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
That fish out of water story is just classic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2024
And we scoop trillions of fish out of the water indiscriminately in large nets who are left to die slowly by asphyxiation.
From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2024
It's like I pulled a rotten fish out of the refrigerator and placed it on the table.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
