| 单词 | fishing expedition |
| 释义 | fishing expeditionSEE SYNONYMS FOR fishing expedition ON THESAURUS.COM noun Informal.a legal proceeding mainly for the purpose of interrogating an adversary, or of examining his or her property and documents, in order to gain useful information. any inquiry carried on without any clearly defined plan or purpose in the hope of discovering useful information. Also called fishing trip. Origin of fishing expeditionFirst recorded in 1960–65 Words nearby fishing expeditionfish hawk, fishhook, fishhook cactus, fishing, fishing banks, fishing expedition, fishing ground, fishing pole, fishing rod, fishing smack, fishing tackle Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Idioms and Phrases with fishing expeditionfishing expedition An attempt to find useful information by asking questions at random. For example, The sales force was told to go on a fishing expedition to find out what they could about the company's competitors. This expression was taken up by lawyers to describe interrogating an adversary in hopes of finding relevant evidence and is now used more broadly still. [c. 1930] The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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