fish out of water

Sure, Nancy has the fish-out-of-water thing going on, but that attribute often defines Piper.

I would love to emulate people like Alexander Payne or Sofia Coppola, who does fish-out-of-water movies so well.

Even Kunis alluded to this when she was asked to attend a wedding by a fish-out-of-water BBC interviewer.

They give themselves airs and expect us to be fish-out-of-water.

Bolton was now in plain clothes, and he had that fish-out-of-water appearance which characterizes the constable in mufti.