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View synonyms for Fish out of water

Fish out of water

  1. Someone who is out of his or her normal environment or range of activities: “I felt like a fish out of water at the advanced technology conference.”


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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.

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