fish out
(tr, adverb) to find or extract (something): to fish keys out of a pocket
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How to use fish out in a sentence
But the car ran out of gas, and de Merode had to fish out $20 for it to refuel.
A Belgian Prince, Gorillas, Guerrillas & the Future of the Congo | Nina Strochlic | November 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSure, Nancy has the fish-out-of-water thing going on, but that attribute often defines Piper.
Orange Is the New Weeds: The Adventures of Jenji Kohan Across the 8th Dimension | Rich Goldstein, Emily Shire | August 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThey center around two white bourgeoisie women who are the fish out of a water and love proving they can be that dehydrated fish.
Orange Is the New Weeds: The Adventures of Jenji Kohan Across the 8th Dimension | Rich Goldstein, Emily Shire | August 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI would love to emulate people like Alexander Payne or Sofia Coppola, who does fish-out-of-water movies so well.
Diablo Cody’s Personal (and Directorial) Paradise | Kevin Fallon | October 18, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTEven Kunis alluded to this when she was asked to attend a wedding by a fish-out-of-water BBC interviewer.
Kate Upton, Mila Kunis: Enough With the YouTube Prom Proposals | Kevin Fallon | March 20, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
If a sailor on land is a fish out of water, a soldier at sea is like a game cock in a duckpond.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 | Ian HamiltonWith some difficulty, Ward got the fish out of the water and began to drag it up the hill toward his house.
What Rough Beast? | Jefferson HigheI was busy beating my wife while you were getting birds out of fishnets and fish out of snares!
Mighty Mikko | Parker FillmoreHe felt very much a fish out of water, in that strange country; were he alone, he would feel ten times more so.
The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley | Bertram MitfordHe cared for nothing to do with the sea, but the fish out of it, and that only when dressed and steaming on the table.
The Fourth Estate, vol.1 | Armando Palacio Valds
Other Idioms and Phrases with fish out
Also, fish up. Discover and retrieve something from a pile or store. For example, She finally fished out the right letter from the files, or He fished up a scandal for the paper to run in the early edition. This usage likens pulling fish from the sea to finding something. [Mid-1600s]
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