| 单词 | fish for |
| 释义 | fish forSEE SYNONYMS FOR fish for ON THESAURUS.COM Try to obtain something through artifice or indirectly. For example, He was always fishing for compliments, or, as William Makepeace Thackeray put it in Vanity Fair (1848): “The first woman who fishes for him, hooks him.” [Mid-1500s] Search for something, as in I've fished for it in all the drawers. [First half of 1700s] Words nearby fish forfish farm, fishfinger, fish flake, fish flour, fishfly, fish for, fish fork, fish fry, fish geranium, fishgig, Fishguard The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
| 随便看 |
英语词典包含192737条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。