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“David would be like a fish out of water if he were out of public service,” Bumpers, who served 18 years with Pryor in the Senate, said in 2006.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 20, 2024

I'm convinced that Haaland needs the constant flow of goals and without them he's like a fish out of water.

From BBC • Oct. 23, 2023

Could you just speak more to how that made you feel and how that made you feel like a fish out of water?

From Salon • Oct. 1, 2023

“The entire building smells like money,” Rabess writes, but Jess is not a fish out of water — her entire young adult life has been defined by the affluence of those around her.

From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2023

Trapped indoors, I was as nervous as a fish out of water.

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls




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