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
To continue the maritime theme, Wolves have looked like a fish out of water for most of this Premier League campaign.
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026
That fish out of water story is just classic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2024
But hey, we might be fish out of water, but at least we had escaped the horns of our dilemma to a silver lining, as Mami might say.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
