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“You know that something is ‘fishy,’” he wrote, “We will get to the bottom of it very quickly.”

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Seabirds from all around were drawn to a frothy, fishy patch of ocean.

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Fans often press him for the scoop on Trout, he said, with some version of this line: “You guys share the same fishy last name, and he’s Mr. Angel just like you.”

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“I cannot say for sure, but something sure smells fishy,” Larson wrote in the email.

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It’s the source of the smell of the sea, that sort of fishy, sort of eggy aroma that evokes deeply nostalgic reactions in, well, almost everyone.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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