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nounPlural fishes fɪʃfɪʃ 1A limbless cold-blooded vertebrate animal with gills and fins living wholly in water. the huge lakes are now devoid of fish Example sentencesExamples - A man feels wet when he falls into water, because man is not a water animal: a fish would not feel wet.
- Reefs of brilliantly coloured corals and sponges provide shelter for fish, Crustacea, and other animals.
- Several other species of marine fishes spawn on beaches, although actual emergence of adults from water is rare.
- The diet of Nile perch consists of fishes, insects, crustacea and mollusks.
- The fish and shellfish in the waters around our coast and inland are the finest in the world, and it's no wonder that everyone else in mainland Europe wants rights to them.
- One species of bacterium sickens cattle, for example, while another attacks frogs, fishes, and other cold-blooded animals.
- Comparable studies of fishes and other aquatic vertebrates are scarce, despite a wealth of neontological data.
- Juvenile rockfish that reside in kelp beds are often eaten by many fishes and other marine animals.
- Included among these vertebrates are sharks, bony fishes, amphibians, turtles, lizards, crocodiles, and dinosaurs.
- Discussions of pectoral fin swimming in fishes have largely focused on the benefits of the fins during hovering, slow swimming and maneuvering.
- They feed on small bony fishes, snails, worms, shrimps, clams, abalone, and crabs.
- Cindy began naming all the fish and those that were her favorites.
- Rays and skates primarily feed on molluscs, crustaceans, worms and occasionally smaller fishes.
- Many other Queensland creatures - including various species of fishes and mollusks - hold the distinction of being the most venomous of their kind.
- Among vertebrate classes, fishes exhibit by far the greatest variability in competitive and cooperative behaviors in male reproduction.
- It seems that they don't know that the first vertebrates were fish.
- Bald eagles feed primarily on marine mammals and fish and would not be a threat to the foxes.
- All decapod crustaceans and fishes were identified and enumerated, a representative subsample was measured and then all animals were returned to the system.
- Snakes employ shivering thermogenesis, which acts to warm their eggs, amphipods actively ventilate the brood pouch, and fishes fan to increase water circulation.
- E. americanus is a predator that as an adult feeds on large insect larvae, crayfishes and other fishes.
- 1.1mass noun The flesh of fish as food.
a dinner of meat, dried fish, and bread Example sentencesExamples - For a true taste of Croatian Adriatic cuisine seek out the tiny tavernas where you can eat superb local fish and sea food.
- You are, however, allowed to eat as much red meat, poultry, fish and fatty foods, like heavy cream, as you want.
- The diet advocates that concentrated carbohydrates like bread and concentrated protein foods like meat and fish should never be eaten at the same time.
- Typical meals for urban residents consist of fruits and vegetables, meat or fish, bread, and rice.
- George is now on a special dried food made of oily fish and tapioca, with occasional chicken or turkey as a treat.
- Baking is a great method to cook fish, allowing the flesh to cook evenly and stay moist.
- Consumption of fresh foods - meat, fish and fruit - is above average.
- It's better to stick to lean cuts of red meat, white meat or fish.
- Its central ingredients are seasonal produce, whole-grain foods, fish and lean meats.
- To prevent foodborne infection, your child also shouldn't eat raw fish, seafood, meat, or uncooked eggs.
- I have mentioned this numerous times here, but he doesn't eat fish or seafood.
- The flesh of these fish is reddish and has a reputation for being indigestible.
- It's equally gluggable as an aperitif or with fish and white meat dishes.
- Danish food includes a wide variety of fish, meat, bread, cheese, and crispbreads.
- You can experiment with all kinds of sausage, vegetables, cheese dishes, fish and meat.
- Creatine is something that the body either produces naturally or obtains directly from foods such as fish and meat.
- Add a layer of tomatoes, some capers and some fish, add gelatine preparation and put in the fridge for 10 min.
- Cholesterol is made by the liver and also supplied through such foods as meat, fish and dairy products.
- The vitamin is found naturally in foods like fish, milk, eggs and meat, and is also usually included in fortified cereals.
- If drinking was to continue after the cooked food had been exhausted, dried meat and fish were served.
- 1.2the Fish" or "Fishes The zodiacal sign or constellation Pisces.
- 1.3 Used in names of invertebrate animals living wholly in water, e.g. cuttlefish, shellfish, jellyfish.
- 1.4informal A torpedo.
2British informal with adjective A person who is strange in a specified way. he is generally thought to be a bit of a cold fish Example sentencesExamples - If it was all the same guy I shall have to regard him as rather an odd fish.
- So what if he had a reputation as a rather cold fish?
- She seems too sensitive to survive this earth and her cold fish of a husband, and indeed she doesn't.
- And since Kail had many women chasing after him, why would he waste his time on a cold fish?
- I was silent; was it any wonder I was, as Adam termed it, a cold fish?
- He is too much of a cold fish to capture our hearts and often seems more sullen than smouldering.
- She's a perfectionist and is analytical about her performances but seems afraid of being perceived as a cold fish.
- If German pianists have a reputation for being cold fish, this reputation is belied by playing such as this.
- It is also important, for your purposes, whether she's a cold fish or just madder than hell at you.
- She has a tendency to use quite clinical language - which masks deep emotions, but can make her look a bit of a cold fish on the page.
- This time he's playing a much more sympathetic character, but he's still a cold fish.
- Wayne fought to find the words he would need to say to try and strike up a conversation with the normally cold fish of a boy he had for a friend whom he had only known for just over a day.
- Their attempt to soften the electorate's impression of her as a scientific cold fish is one of the few amusing spectacles in a grim political landscape.
- The husband is a convert, obsessed by apologetics, church history, and doctrine - something of a pious cold fish.
- In essence, she's calling her an aloof, cold fish - hardly the most enthusiastic endorsement.
- It has also been argued that Robert is just a cold fish and/or that his friends' marital squabbles have scared him off.
- Perhaps every writer of fiction suspects himself or herself to be a cold fish at heart, a mere spectator of other people's joys and passions.
- Some of this support surely comes from some of the same people who'd considered him something of a cold fish.
- Mack, for such a cold fish, is enthralling, partly because of the shimmer of uncertainty about what is true and what is not.
- Brand himself is a cold fish and a nervous character, who conceives a murderous hatred for his junior officer.
verbfishes fɪʃfɪʃ [no object]1Catch or try to catch fish, typically by using a net or hook and line. I've told the girls we've gone fishing Example sentencesExamples - Apparently the two had gone fishing while she was gone.
- In many northeastem waters, rainbow smelt is taken by dip netters during their spawning runs and is commonly used for bait by anglers fishing for trout and salmon.
- It was originally thought the gnomes, four old men with fishing rods, may have gone fishing but it now appears that there may be something fishy about their disappearance.
- For the local fishermen, however, fishing for the snappers is a way of life.
- Under normal circumstances you would've fixed them on the spot, then gone fishing with him.
- At uni, I tried my hand at fishing for trout and caught nothing all day except a barrel of derision when I slipped and fell into a river.
- If you're fishing for the first two species, why not try fishing with fly gear or lures.
- We've gone fishing and played basketball with some of the other fellows home on leave and not once over these last two weeks have we talked about the ship.
- We'd gone fishing over in Canada a few weeks ago.
- I thought this was very strange as we had never gone fishing before or done anything together that involved being outdoors.
- The effect of byelaw 5 is to impose a regime of mandatory catch and release for salmon fished with rod and line in the early part of the season, up to 16 June.
- No matter what the size of the reel it is always a good idea to give the line a stretch before fishing.
- The three pound line is necessary as I am fishing for very big roach in fast flowing water.
- He and his girlfriend, Carolina, had gone fishing for the summer, and had turned their cellphone off.
- Fish of this size have been caught by anglers targeting the chub and also by anglers fishing for the sea trout.
- Picking it up her mind wandered to when her won father had gone fishing with her and her brother.
- The missing man is believed to have gone fishing alone early on Thursday morning.
- I am an avid fisherman and have been fishing for salmon all my life: I am now 53.
- Local fishermen fishing for the local market are not depleting the stocks.
- There is no benefit from hanging an entire shrimp off a hook when fishing for coastal panfish.
Synonyms go fishing, angle, cast, trawl - 1.1with object Catch or try to catch fish in (a particular body of water)
many of the lochs we used to fish are now affected by forestry Example sentencesExamples - The answer of course is that these waters are lucrative and these countries have fished their own waters to the levels where they have insufficient stocks.
- Next week I return to England and look at a water that had not been fished for 20 years and was full of massive tench.
- Now, the final nail in the coffin, drastic cuts in the number of days our few remaining fishermen are allowed to fish our own waters.
- Other stories come from ‘the time before this time,’ when the Hinchinbrook waters were fished differently.
- Through a gap in the branches, only the most meagre stretch of water could be fished before the fly dragged hopelessly across the surface.
- Jack fished some fast water just upstream of Redscar wood known as Duck Island.
- The people of India have always lived along the coast, and have always fished the waters.
- If you are found to be fishing club waters without a current paid up member-ship you are not insured and maybe asked to leave or could face action from the club.
- Fly fishers in the salt water environment need something entirely different to their freshwater counterpart on the chalk stream, as does the angler who fishes big reservoirs.
- You're fishing new water each day, and you get into areas that the big yachts can't reach.
- He spent several months fishing Belizean waters, but never was able to come ashore.
- A stone's throw from a mosaic pike, two lads fished the muddy waters.
- Maybe because these waters haven't been fished by people too much.
- Mr Murray, who regularly fishes this stretch of water, added: ‘Our hard work helped to reduce the impact on the canal and to restore it to its former quality.’
- A friend of mine who fishes a very easy water has in the past few weeks landed 98 carp.
2Search by groping or feeling for something concealed. he fished for his registration certificate and held it up to the policeman's torch Example sentencesExamples - After a short spell of silence, I reached back into the van and fished out a bulky wooden box covered in black and white square.
- Leaping over the king size bed, Roy fished the grenade out of his jacket and pulled the pin, holding the timing clip down.
- I fished out a ten dollar bill and handed it to her, grabbing my bag and following her to the cash register.
- The Irishman reached back and fished out the folder, placing it on his lap as he deposited the coffee mug in its place.
- He reached into his pocket and fished out his wallet to pay Collin.
- Nicole put her hand in her plaid skirt and fished out a set of keys.
- Then he reached into his back pocket and pulled out his wallet, fishing a business card out of it.
- She fished out four quarters from her purse and handed in to the girl.
- She grabbed her bag, fished out her wallet, and pulled out a credit card.
- Dejectedly, everyone fished out their keys and laid them silently in front of the headmaster.
- In response, I fished for my tiny silver cell phone and flipped it open.
- She watched as Lily broke eggs into a bowl and fished out pieces of shell with her fingers.
- Carly rummaged around in the cooler, and fished out a six-pack of soda.
- He had fished out a fifty dollar bill, plus four quarters, one dime, and a nickel.
- Finally, I reached into the compartment of the case, and fished out a reed.
- He reached inside his pocket, fished out another cigarette and lit it.
- Jules took the hint and fished out a crumpled ten-euro note from her purse.
- He pulled on his jacket and fished the keys out of his pocket.
- She pulled out a little notepad from her pocket and fished out a pen.
- He pulled out his wallet and fished out a five-dollar bill for his tab.
Synonyms search, delve, look, hunt, cast about/around/round grope, ferret (about/around), root about/around, rummage (about/around/round), scrabble, fumble seek, look high and low - 2.1 Try subtly or deviously to elicit a response or some information from someone.
I was not fishing for compliments Example sentencesExamples - Every one was helpful and eager to practice their English, proud of their country, if not their politicians, always fishing for compliments.
- I was going to ask him what he'd liked best, but though it would probably look like I was fishing for compliments, so let it drop.
- Joss, meanwhile, is just blatantly fishing for compliments.
- You don't bother to say that you aren't fishing for compliments, that you really do mean it.
- She was fishing for information, and Elise immediately recognized it, wisely keeping her mouth shut.
- I fished for an adequate response.
- There was silence for a moment; she obviously was fishing for a response.
- When she wasn't fishing for compliments she was sitting in front of one of the televisions and indulging in a rather large glass of sherry.
- Though they tried to appear sympathetic to the cases of detention, the CID was evidently fishing for information to discredit the articles.
- All the same, investors will keep fishing for information.
- Choosing to ignore the question - I didn't want to start fishing for compliments - I kept walking along.
- During lunch she kept fishing for compliments, which I gave her.
- The first time I got naked with this guy I was dating, I went fishing for compliments and made a comment about a totally insignificant part of my body.
- As he tried to do with reporters, he was always fishing for information.
- He says he's not a singer and is going to quit the show, clearly fishing for compliments.
- I'm not fishing for compliments or anything, but two people have recently asked me when I'll post another story.
- Did he really know, or was he fishing for information?
- ‘I always knew that,’ I said, since it seemed like the response she was fishing for.
- An important skill in cold reading is the ability to get information without obviously fishing for it.
- Personally, if I have time, I like to fish for as much information as possible.
Synonyms try to get, seek to obtain, solicit make a bid, angle, aim, cast about/around/round, hope, look informal be after - 2.2fish something outwith object Pull or take something out of water or a receptacle.
the body of a woman had been fished out of the river Example sentencesExamples - He dropped the rag into the steaming water, then fished it out with a scrub brush.
- Brian yelped with surprise and turned to fish his girlfriend out of the water.
- Just talk to paramedic rescue operators who pull people off mountain cliffs and fish them out of 40-foot swells at sea.
- They will be accompanied at all times by highly experienced distance swimmers and a rescue boat to fish them out if they get into difficulties.
- They arranged for some support ahead of time, but it seems like they sat there while the local police and rescue workers were left on their own to fish people out of the water.
- You've probably heard that an infant was fished out of the river earlier in the week.
- By the time help arrived, most of the parents had fished their children out of the blackened water.
- Directed by the helicopter, nine people were fished out of the water and they told the rescue team that the boat had been taken over by terrorists.
- Sailors on board ships can then fish the swimmer out of the water.
- He said bikes had been fished out of the river before, but never a barrow.
- When the corpses of two Chinese fishermen were fished out of the sea in the Falklands' territorial waters last February, a forensic pathologist had to be flown in from London.
- I'm kneeling by the end of this pool, with my hands in the water, trying to grab hold of this monster to fish it out of there.
- One day, Joe and Les fish the body of a girl out of the water.
- Elsewhere, you might expect a few worms would be fished out of the pool with a net and life would go on.
- Horrified boat tour tourists faithfully fished his broken body from the water below.
- Richard and volunteers spent two frantic evenings running up and down the road helping newts, toads and frogs cross the road, fishing them out of drains and covering up the grids.
- I fished the phone out of the water, and also my camera, and waded to the shore.
- A handful of shivering Albanians are fished out of the Adriatic, distressed beyond belief, hoping desperately for signs of missing relatives.
Synonyms pull out, haul out, take out, bring out remove, extricate, extract, retrieve rescue from, save from
Usage The normal plural of fish is fish (a shoal of fish; he caught two huge fish). The older form fishes is still used, when referring to different kinds of fish (freshwater fishes of the British Isles) Phrases all's fish that comes to the net proverb You can or should take advantage of anything that comes your way.
An important or influential person. he became a big fish in the world of politics Example sentencesExamples - The trail saw big fish rubbing shoulders with young designers.
- Now, to the leak investigation that threatens to engulf a very big fish at the White House.
- Although the police arrested his manager in Delhi, the big fish escaped to Bangkok.
- Perhaps the logic was that the jury pool in Beverly Hills is swimming with so many big fish from the film world that you are bound to net some, so why worry?
- And the remaining 2000 cases are moving slowly and no big fish has been arrested.
- In many cases, he or she is likely to be eligible to be promoted to the ranks of the big fish.
- He doesn't make a big deal of it, but it comes in handy when you need to reel in the big fish for charity events.
- Only high-spec developments and the best locations attract the big fish who remain.
- Of course, there are still lots of former journalists around in Whitehall, but they are no longer the big fish.
- He enjoys being a big fish, playing with the politicians who make a difference.
a big fish in a small pond A person who is important only within the limited scope of a small field or group. Example sentencesExamples - I think village schools give people more confidence because you are a big fish in a small pond.
- Regrettably for them, they seem to have forfeited their chance of becoming more than big fish in a small pond.
- The customer feels like a big fish in a small pond.
- Sometimes, for musicians, being a big fish in a small pond is no bad thing.
- Alone, we'll always be a big fish in a small pond.
- Or is it that once you arrive, you are suddenly a big fish in a small pond?
- Dean will become a big fish in a small pond and I'm sure he would love that.
- I do think that I had the benefit of being a big fish in a small pond in Scotland, whereas if I'd gone to London, it might have taken me a lot longer to break through.
- He is for once, a big fish in a small pond and judging by the size of the grin on his face he's loving it.
- It would have been easy to settle for the high-life in Athens, where he was a big fish in one of football's smaller ponds.
Drink excessive amounts of alcohol. he stayed sober—except on Sundays when he would lock himself away and drink like a fish Example sentencesExamples - ‘I was drinking like a fish every day and taking a bunch of pills,’ she admits.
- He works like a dog, drinks like a fish, and pops beer caps off with his teeth.
- She took the first $200 of her check and drank like a fish, having quit her job with this intended purpose in mind.
- He was drinking like a fish, every night, into the wee hours.
- He drinks like a fish, and yet never seems intoxicated.
- We did not see him much socially, so who told him I drank like a fish I've no idea.
- I was living in London at the time, not feeling on top of the world, but then when you drink like a fish and smoke thirty a day, you don't tend to, do you?
- Liza was one of those girls who could party until five am, drinking like a fish and when she woke up at seven for work still look like she had a full night's sleep.
- I didn't have a drop to drink until I was 18 and then I showed up at college and drank like a fish.
- I didn't know that you actually had anything in mind other than drinking like a fish.
A person in a completely unsuitable environment or situation. senior bankers are fish out of water when it comes to international lending Example sentencesExamples - ‘I find acting nerve-racking and I feel like a fish out of water,’ he says.
- I might be a fish out of water, but I reckon I've heard them all.
- I've felt like a fish out of water, being cut off from the internet.
- ‘I've always been a fish out of water, never accepted,’ he says.
- Lenny is a tender soul, which makes him a fish out of water in his world.
- She's very much a fish out of water and she's trying to manage a personal life as well as be good at her job.
- In the city he is a fish out of water with absolutely no sense of direction.
- Without the Army, big Stan was a fish out of water.
- I'll be a fish out of water there, I'm sure, but it will be a view of the community I have not had yet.
- Just last week he was a fish out of water who had made a disastrous career move that saw his legacy as one of England's greatest ever strikers in tatters at departures.
have other (or bigger) fish to fry Have other (or more important) matters to attend to. the currency markets have had other fish to fry, with all attention focused on the dollar and yen Example sentencesExamples - For quite a number of years now, they've had bigger fish to fry.
- But the people exploiting this saga have other fish to fry.
- Its an old trick I learned a long time ago, sometime I'll teach you, but right now we have bigger fish to fry.
- But I think we have to put that anger and rage aside and wait until the appropriate time, because we have bigger fish to fry.
- They have been ignored by the vast majority of Irish politicians who appear to have bigger fish to fry at home.
- To be honest it's a trivial matter and I have bigger fish to fry.
- The CEO obviously felt he had bigger fish to fry as he pursued an ambitious overseas expansion strategy.
- So I think we ought to respect this threat and we ought to be very careful, but obviously we still have other fish to fry with the international terrorist network.
- If an inner city parent ignores a summons, the police and courts have bigger fish to fry.
- He's not well liked, but this week, the housemates have bigger fish to fry.
like shooting fish in a barrel picking cultivated berries is like shooting fish in a barrel Example sentencesExamples - He says catching speeders these days is like shooting fish in a barrel - a sure revenue generator.
- And I agree with Jim, it's like shooting fish in a barrel.
- Riling you up is like shooting fish in a barrel.
- Teenagers are too easy to make fun of - it's like shooting fish in a barrel, so why bother?
- But criticising these guys is kind of like shooting fish in a barrel.
- Since then, every TV critic has savaged it, although it's like shooting fish in a barrel.
- Signing on new clients was like shooting fish in a barrel.
- It's a bit like shooting fish in a barrel otherwise.
- With a bit of luck it will be like shooting fish in a barrel.
- Picking out this item or that for criticism seems unsportsmanlike, like shooting fish in a barrel.
neither fish nor fowl (nor good red herring) Of indefinite character and difficult to identify or classify. Example sentencesExamples - The main reason for that is that they are neither fish nor fowl.
- I will consider each of the complaints in some detail, one by one, but the fundamental difficulty is that the Defendant's case from a legal point of view is neither fish nor fowl.
- Creative nonfiction, however, is neither fish nor fowl.
- Everybody said when we started out that you can't do this, you won't make a success of it, you're neither fish nor fowl.
- Sixty-two is a strange age to be, neither fish nor fowl, nor good red herring, it seems to me but I'm glad to discover that I'm not too old to be thrilled at the prospect of a nice birthday present.
- Trying to satisfy all constituents, it has usually come down right in the middle - not a good place to be, neither fish nor fowl.
- Those suggestions are neither here nor there, neither fish nor fowl.
- ‘Now they are neither fish nor fowl and fewer students are taking them’, he said.
- Here's a work that is obscure only because it is neither fish nor fowl; it is not quite a concerto, yet at twelve minutes, it is too long to be an encore.
- The Tory peer, said: ‘The whole system has to be looked at afresh because at present it is neither fish nor fowl.’
Synonyms ambiguous, doubtful, unclear, uncertain, indistinct, indefinite, indeterminate, open to question, debatable
there are plenty more fish in the sea Used to console someone whose romantic relationship has ended by pointing out that there are many other people with whom they may have a successful relationship in the future. Example sentencesExamples - Because if a relationship doesn't work out, they know there are plenty more fish in the sea.
- ‘Oh and I suppose you will tell me next that there are plenty more fish in the sea’ yelled Giles.
- How many more times do we have to remind you of this, he is just using you and there are plenty more fish in the sea, then you will see what love really is!
Derivatives adjective It gradually expanded as fishable stocks were found farther south. Example sentencesExamples - Once the river levels were back to a fishable condition, coarse and game anglers experienced some good fishing.
- The river has been above normal level for most of the week but is now falling back to a fishable condition.
- Although fishable by Sunday the river levels were too high to allow the event being pegged on Saturday afternoon.
- In some cases this may equate to a smaller fishable area.
adjective Quick and nimble, fishlike, she glides over rocks, under overhangs and squeezes into narrow openings. Example sentencesExamples - The cuticle may be left feeling extremely rough or in some cases the delicate cuticle fishlike scales may be permanently damaged or burned off.
- He provides a sketch of a creature with the head of an elephant, a fishlike body with a camel hump, four legs like a lion, and a forked tail like a fish.
- That's when I saw the spiny ridge that ran the length of her back to the fishlike tail that existed where her legs should have been.
- Despite their fishlike exteriors, ichthyosaurs had to surface to breathe air and they gave birth to live young.
Origin Old English fisc (as a noun denoting any animal living exclusively in water), fiscian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vis, vissen and German Fisch, fischen. A fish was originally any animal living exclusively in water, as distinct from the ‘birds of the air’, and the ‘beasts of the field’. In Christian art a fish is a symbol of Christ, and is often found in paintings in the underground catacombs of ancient Rome—for this reason modern Christians sometimes have a stylized fish on their car's number plate. The connection may go back to the first letters of the Greek words for ‘Jesus Christ, Son of God, Saviour’, which were read as ikhthus, Greek for ‘fish’, found in words such as ichthyologist (early 18th century) for someone who studies fish, and the fish-like dinosaur the ichthyosaur (mid 19th century). We have been eating fish fingers for more than 50 years. Their inventor Clarence Birdseye, founder of the Birds Eye food company, launched them in 1955. The idea of being a fish out of water, or a person in a completely unsuitable environment, is very old, going back to the days of Geoffrey Chaucer, who wrote that ‘A monk when he is reckless [meaning ‘neglectful of his duty’] is like a fish that is waterless’. See also red, wife
Rhymes bish, dish, Frisch, Gish, knish, pish, squish, wish nounPlural fishes fɪʃfɪʃ 1A flat plate that is fixed on a beam or across a joint in order to give additional strength. - 1.1 A long, slightly curved piece of wood that is lashed to a ship's damaged mast or spar as a temporary repair.
verbfishes fɪʃfɪʃ [with object]1Mend or strengthen with a fish. 2Join (rails in a railway track) with a fishplate.
Origin Early 16th century: probably from French fiche, from ficher 'to fix', based on Latin figere. nounfɪʃfiSH 1A limbless cold-blooded vertebrate animal with gills and fins and living wholly in water. the sea is thick with fish Example sentencesExamples - Rays and skates primarily feed on molluscs, crustaceans, worms and occasionally smaller fishes.
- The fish and shellfish in the waters around our coast and inland are the finest in the world, and it's no wonder that everyone else in mainland Europe wants rights to them.
- Reefs of brilliantly coloured corals and sponges provide shelter for fish, Crustacea, and other animals.
- Many other Queensland creatures - including various species of fishes and mollusks - hold the distinction of being the most venomous of their kind.
- Bald eagles feed primarily on marine mammals and fish and would not be a threat to the foxes.
- Cindy began naming all the fish and those that were her favorites.
- Discussions of pectoral fin swimming in fishes have largely focused on the benefits of the fins during hovering, slow swimming and maneuvering.
- It seems that they don't know that the first vertebrates were fish.
- Included among these vertebrates are sharks, bony fishes, amphibians, turtles, lizards, crocodiles, and dinosaurs.
- The diet of Nile perch consists of fishes, insects, crustacea and mollusks.
- Snakes employ shivering thermogenesis, which acts to warm their eggs, amphipods actively ventilate the brood pouch, and fishes fan to increase water circulation.
- Comparable studies of fishes and other aquatic vertebrates are scarce, despite a wealth of neontological data.
- Among vertebrate classes, fishes exhibit by far the greatest variability in competitive and cooperative behaviors in male reproduction.
- A man feels wet when he falls into water, because man is not a water animal: a fish would not feel wet.
- One species of bacterium sickens cattle, for example, while another attacks frogs, fishes, and other cold-blooded animals.
- All decapod crustaceans and fishes were identified and enumerated, a representative subsample was measured and then all animals were returned to the system.
- E. americanus is a predator that as an adult feeds on large insect larvae, crayfishes and other fishes.
- Several other species of marine fishes spawn on beaches, although actual emergence of adults from water is rare.
- They feed on small bony fishes, snails, worms, shrimps, clams, abalone, and crabs.
- Juvenile rockfish that reside in kelp beds are often eaten by many fishes and other marine animals.
- 1.1 The flesh of fish as food.
hot crab appetizers stuffed with fish Example sentencesExamples - I have mentioned this numerous times here, but he doesn't eat fish or seafood.
- Add a layer of tomatoes, some capers and some fish, add gelatine preparation and put in the fridge for 10 min.
- Cholesterol is made by the liver and also supplied through such foods as meat, fish and dairy products.
- Typical meals for urban residents consist of fruits and vegetables, meat or fish, bread, and rice.
- Consumption of fresh foods - meat, fish and fruit - is above average.
- It's better to stick to lean cuts of red meat, white meat or fish.
- For a true taste of Croatian Adriatic cuisine seek out the tiny tavernas where you can eat superb local fish and sea food.
- George is now on a special dried food made of oily fish and tapioca, with occasional chicken or turkey as a treat.
- To prevent foodborne infection, your child also shouldn't eat raw fish, seafood, meat, or uncooked eggs.
- Its central ingredients are seasonal produce, whole-grain foods, fish and lean meats.
- Danish food includes a wide variety of fish, meat, bread, cheese, and crispbreads.
- Creatine is something that the body either produces naturally or obtains directly from foods such as fish and meat.
- You can experiment with all kinds of sausage, vegetables, cheese dishes, fish and meat.
- The vitamin is found naturally in foods like fish, milk, eggs and meat, and is also usually included in fortified cereals.
- The diet advocates that concentrated carbohydrates like bread and concentrated protein foods like meat and fish should never be eaten at the same time.
- If drinking was to continue after the cooked food had been exhausted, dried meat and fish were served.
- You are, however, allowed to eat as much red meat, poultry, fish and fatty foods, like heavy cream, as you want.
- Baking is a great method to cook fish, allowing the flesh to cook evenly and stay moist.
- The flesh of these fish is reddish and has a reputation for being indigestible.
- It's equally gluggable as an aperitif or with fish and white meat dishes.
- 1.2the Fish" or "Fishes The zodiacal sign or constellation Pisces.
- 1.3 Used in names of invertebrate animals living wholly in water, e.g., cuttlefish, shellfish, jellyfish.
- 1.4informal with adjective A person who is strange in a specified way.
he is generally thought to be a bit of a cold fish Example sentencesExamples - If it was all the same guy I shall have to regard him as rather an odd fish.
- And since Kail had many women chasing after him, why would he waste his time on a cold fish?
- It has also been argued that Robert is just a cold fish and/or that his friends' marital squabbles have scared him off.
- Mack, for such a cold fish, is enthralling, partly because of the shimmer of uncertainty about what is true and what is not.
- It is also important, for your purposes, whether she's a cold fish or just madder than hell at you.
- He is too much of a cold fish to capture our hearts and often seems more sullen than smouldering.
- If German pianists have a reputation for being cold fish, this reputation is belied by playing such as this.
- Some of this support surely comes from some of the same people who'd considered him something of a cold fish.
- I was silent; was it any wonder I was, as Adam termed it, a cold fish?
- So what if he had a reputation as a rather cold fish?
- She seems too sensitive to survive this earth and her cold fish of a husband, and indeed she doesn't.
- Their attempt to soften the electorate's impression of her as a scientific cold fish is one of the few amusing spectacles in a grim political landscape.
- This time he's playing a much more sympathetic character, but he's still a cold fish.
- In essence, she's calling her an aloof, cold fish - hardly the most enthusiastic endorsement.
- The husband is a convert, obsessed by apologetics, church history, and doctrine - something of a pious cold fish.
- Wayne fought to find the words he would need to say to try and strike up a conversation with the normally cold fish of a boy he had for a friend whom he had only known for just over a day.
- She has a tendency to use quite clinical language - which masks deep emotions, but can make her look a bit of a cold fish on the page.
- She's a perfectionist and is analytical about her performances but seems afraid of being perceived as a cold fish.
- Brand himself is a cold fish and a nervous character, who conceives a murderous hatred for his junior officer.
- Perhaps every writer of fiction suspects himself or herself to be a cold fish at heart, a mere spectator of other people's joys and passions.
- 1.5informal A torpedo.
verbfɪʃfiSH [no object]1Catch or try to catch fish, typically by using a net or hook and line. he was fishing for bluefish I've told the girls we've gone fishing Example sentencesExamples - I am an avid fisherman and have been fishing for salmon all my life: I am now 53.
- We've gone fishing and played basketball with some of the other fellows home on leave and not once over these last two weeks have we talked about the ship.
- He and his girlfriend, Carolina, had gone fishing for the summer, and had turned their cellphone off.
- If you're fishing for the first two species, why not try fishing with fly gear or lures.
- I thought this was very strange as we had never gone fishing before or done anything together that involved being outdoors.
- It was originally thought the gnomes, four old men with fishing rods, may have gone fishing but it now appears that there may be something fishy about their disappearance.
- The effect of byelaw 5 is to impose a regime of mandatory catch and release for salmon fished with rod and line in the early part of the season, up to 16 June.
- The three pound line is necessary as I am fishing for very big roach in fast flowing water.
- In many northeastem waters, rainbow smelt is taken by dip netters during their spawning runs and is commonly used for bait by anglers fishing for trout and salmon.
- Picking it up her mind wandered to when her won father had gone fishing with her and her brother.
- Fish of this size have been caught by anglers targeting the chub and also by anglers fishing for the sea trout.
- There is no benefit from hanging an entire shrimp off a hook when fishing for coastal panfish.
- Apparently the two had gone fishing while she was gone.
- Local fishermen fishing for the local market are not depleting the stocks.
- For the local fishermen, however, fishing for the snappers is a way of life.
- At uni, I tried my hand at fishing for trout and caught nothing all day except a barrel of derision when I slipped and fell into a river.
- The missing man is believed to have gone fishing alone early on Thursday morning.
- Under normal circumstances you would've fixed them on the spot, then gone fishing with him.
- We'd gone fishing over in Canada a few weeks ago.
- No matter what the size of the reel it is always a good idea to give the line a stretch before fishing.
Synonyms go fishing, angle, cast, trawl - 1.1with object Catch or try to catch fish in (a particular body of water)
they did fish the mountain streams when game grew scarce Example sentencesExamples - Maybe because these waters haven't been fished by people too much.
- Jack fished some fast water just upstream of Redscar wood known as Duck Island.
- Mr Murray, who regularly fishes this stretch of water, added: ‘Our hard work helped to reduce the impact on the canal and to restore it to its former quality.’
- If you are found to be fishing club waters without a current paid up member-ship you are not insured and maybe asked to leave or could face action from the club.
- Next week I return to England and look at a water that had not been fished for 20 years and was full of massive tench.
- Other stories come from ‘the time before this time,’ when the Hinchinbrook waters were fished differently.
- Now, the final nail in the coffin, drastic cuts in the number of days our few remaining fishermen are allowed to fish our own waters.
- You're fishing new water each day, and you get into areas that the big yachts can't reach.
- Fly fishers in the salt water environment need something entirely different to their freshwater counterpart on the chalk stream, as does the angler who fishes big reservoirs.
- The people of India have always lived along the coast, and have always fished the waters.
- A stone's throw from a mosaic pike, two lads fished the muddy waters.
- Through a gap in the branches, only the most meagre stretch of water could be fished before the fly dragged hopelessly across the surface.
- A friend of mine who fishes a very easy water has in the past few weeks landed 98 carp.
- The answer of course is that these waters are lucrative and these countries have fished their own waters to the levels where they have insufficient stocks.
- He spent several months fishing Belizean waters, but never was able to come ashore.
- 1.2 Search, typically by groping or feeling for something concealed.
he fished for his registration certificate and held it up to the policeman's flashlight Example sentencesExamples - Dejectedly, everyone fished out their keys and laid them silently in front of the headmaster.
- In response, I fished for my tiny silver cell phone and flipped it open.
- He reached inside his pocket, fished out another cigarette and lit it.
- Finally, I reached into the compartment of the case, and fished out a reed.
- Carly rummaged around in the cooler, and fished out a six-pack of soda.
- Jules took the hint and fished out a crumpled ten-euro note from her purse.
- He had fished out a fifty dollar bill, plus four quarters, one dime, and a nickel.
- He reached into his pocket and fished out his wallet to pay Collin.
- She fished out four quarters from her purse and handed in to the girl.
- Nicole put her hand in her plaid skirt and fished out a set of keys.
- He pulled out his wallet and fished out a five-dollar bill for his tab.
- She watched as Lily broke eggs into a bowl and fished out pieces of shell with her fingers.
- After a short spell of silence, I reached back into the van and fished out a bulky wooden box covered in black and white square.
- She pulled out a little notepad from her pocket and fished out a pen.
- I fished out a ten dollar bill and handed it to her, grabbing my bag and following her to the cash register.
- Then he reached into his back pocket and pulled out his wallet, fishing a business card out of it.
- She grabbed her bag, fished out her wallet, and pulled out a credit card.
- He pulled on his jacket and fished the keys out of his pocket.
- The Irishman reached back and fished out the folder, placing it on his lap as he deposited the coffee mug in its place.
- Leaping over the king size bed, Roy fished the grenade out of his jacket and pulled the pin, holding the timing clip down.
Synonyms search, delve, look, hunt, cast about, cast around, cast round - 1.3 Try subtly or deviously to elicit a response or some information from someone.
I was not fishing for compliments Example sentencesExamples - I'm not fishing for compliments or anything, but two people have recently asked me when I'll post another story.
- He says he's not a singer and is going to quit the show, clearly fishing for compliments.
- ‘I always knew that,’ I said, since it seemed like the response she was fishing for.
- An important skill in cold reading is the ability to get information without obviously fishing for it.
- She was fishing for information, and Elise immediately recognized it, wisely keeping her mouth shut.
- You don't bother to say that you aren't fishing for compliments, that you really do mean it.
- The first time I got naked with this guy I was dating, I went fishing for compliments and made a comment about a totally insignificant part of my body.
- When she wasn't fishing for compliments she was sitting in front of one of the televisions and indulging in a rather large glass of sherry.
- Did he really know, or was he fishing for information?
- Every one was helpful and eager to practice their English, proud of their country, if not their politicians, always fishing for compliments.
- Personally, if I have time, I like to fish for as much information as possible.
- I fished for an adequate response.
- I was going to ask him what he'd liked best, but though it would probably look like I was fishing for compliments, so let it drop.
- Choosing to ignore the question - I didn't want to start fishing for compliments - I kept walking along.
- There was silence for a moment; she obviously was fishing for a response.
- Though they tried to appear sympathetic to the cases of detention, the CID was evidently fishing for information to discredit the articles.
- As he tried to do with reporters, he was always fishing for information.
- Joss, meanwhile, is just blatantly fishing for compliments.
- All the same, investors will keep fishing for information.
- During lunch she kept fishing for compliments, which I gave her.
Synonyms try to get, seek to obtain, solicit - 1.4fish something outwith object Pull or take something out of water or a container.
the body of a woman had been fished out of the river Example sentencesExamples - I'm kneeling by the end of this pool, with my hands in the water, trying to grab hold of this monster to fish it out of there.
- A handful of shivering Albanians are fished out of the Adriatic, distressed beyond belief, hoping desperately for signs of missing relatives.
- Sailors on board ships can then fish the swimmer out of the water.
- You've probably heard that an infant was fished out of the river earlier in the week.
- Elsewhere, you might expect a few worms would be fished out of the pool with a net and life would go on.
- They will be accompanied at all times by highly experienced distance swimmers and a rescue boat to fish them out if they get into difficulties.
- Horrified boat tour tourists faithfully fished his broken body from the water below.
- They arranged for some support ahead of time, but it seems like they sat there while the local police and rescue workers were left on their own to fish people out of the water.
- By the time help arrived, most of the parents had fished their children out of the blackened water.
- I fished the phone out of the water, and also my camera, and waded to the shore.
- One day, Joe and Les fish the body of a girl out of the water.
- Brian yelped with surprise and turned to fish his girlfriend out of the water.
- Richard and volunteers spent two frantic evenings running up and down the road helping newts, toads and frogs cross the road, fishing them out of drains and covering up the grids.
- When the corpses of two Chinese fishermen were fished out of the sea in the Falklands' territorial waters last February, a forensic pathologist had to be flown in from London.
- He said bikes had been fished out of the river before, but never a barrow.
- Just talk to paramedic rescue operators who pull people off mountain cliffs and fish them out of 40-foot swells at sea.
- Directed by the helicopter, nine people were fished out of the water and they told the rescue team that the boat had been taken over by terrorists.
- He dropped the rag into the steaming water, then fished it out with a scrub brush.
Synonyms pull out, haul out, take out, bring out
Usage The normal plural of fish is fish (a shoal of fish; he caught two huge fish). The older form fishes is still used, but almost exclusively when referring to different kinds of fish (freshwater fishes of the Great Lakes) Phrases An important or influential person. he became a big fish in the world of politics Example sentencesExamples - Perhaps the logic was that the jury pool in Beverly Hills is swimming with so many big fish from the film world that you are bound to net some, so why worry?
- Only high-spec developments and the best locations attract the big fish who remain.
- Although the police arrested his manager in Delhi, the big fish escaped to Bangkok.
- He doesn't make a big deal of it, but it comes in handy when you need to reel in the big fish for charity events.
- Of course, there are still lots of former journalists around in Whitehall, but they are no longer the big fish.
- And the remaining 2000 cases are moving slowly and no big fish has been arrested.
- The trail saw big fish rubbing shoulders with young designers.
- Now, to the leak investigation that threatens to engulf a very big fish at the White House.
- He enjoys being a big fish, playing with the politicians who make a difference.
- In many cases, he or she is likely to be eligible to be promoted to the ranks of the big fish.
a big fish in a small pond A person seen as important and influential only within the limited scope of a small organization or group. Example sentencesExamples - Or is it that once you arrive, you are suddenly a big fish in a small pond?
- He is for once, a big fish in a small pond and judging by the size of the grin on his face he's loving it.
- I do think that I had the benefit of being a big fish in a small pond in Scotland, whereas if I'd gone to London, it might have taken me a lot longer to break through.
- Sometimes, for musicians, being a big fish in a small pond is no bad thing.
- Regrettably for them, they seem to have forfeited their chance of becoming more than big fish in a small pond.
- Dean will become a big fish in a small pond and I'm sure he would love that.
- It would have been easy to settle for the high-life in Athens, where he was a big fish in one of football's smaller ponds.
- The customer feels like a big fish in a small pond.
- I think village schools give people more confidence because you are a big fish in a small pond.
- Alone, we'll always be a big fish in a small pond.
Drink excessive amounts of alcohol. Example sentencesExamples - She took the first $200 of her check and drank like a fish, having quit her job with this intended purpose in mind.
- He drinks like a fish, and yet never seems intoxicated.
- He was drinking like a fish, every night, into the wee hours.
- I didn't know that you actually had anything in mind other than drinking like a fish.
- He works like a dog, drinks like a fish, and pops beer caps off with his teeth.
- I was living in London at the time, not feeling on top of the world, but then when you drink like a fish and smoke thirty a day, you don't tend to, do you?
- We did not see him much socially, so who told him I drank like a fish I've no idea.
- I didn't have a drop to drink until I was 18 and then I showed up at college and drank like a fish.
- ‘I was drinking like a fish every day and taking a bunch of pills,’ she admits.
- Liza was one of those girls who could party until five am, drinking like a fish and when she woke up at seven for work still look like she had a full night's sleep.
A person in a completely unsuitable environment or situation. Example sentencesExamples - ‘I find acting nerve-racking and I feel like a fish out of water,’ he says.
- Lenny is a tender soul, which makes him a fish out of water in his world.
- In the city he is a fish out of water with absolutely no sense of direction.
- I'll be a fish out of water there, I'm sure, but it will be a view of the community I have not had yet.
- I might be a fish out of water, but I reckon I've heard them all.
- ‘I've always been a fish out of water, never accepted,’ he says.
- She's very much a fish out of water and she's trying to manage a personal life as well as be good at her job.
- I've felt like a fish out of water, being cut off from the internet.
- Just last week he was a fish out of water who had made a disastrous career move that saw his legacy as one of England's greatest ever strikers in tatters at departures.
- Without the Army, big Stan was a fish out of water.
have other (or bigger) fish to fry Have other (or more important) matters to attend to. Example sentencesExamples - He's not well liked, but this week, the housemates have bigger fish to fry.
- If an inner city parent ignores a summons, the police and courts have bigger fish to fry.
- Its an old trick I learned a long time ago, sometime I'll teach you, but right now we have bigger fish to fry.
- So I think we ought to respect this threat and we ought to be very careful, but obviously we still have other fish to fry with the international terrorist network.
- The CEO obviously felt he had bigger fish to fry as he pursued an ambitious overseas expansion strategy.
- They have been ignored by the vast majority of Irish politicians who appear to have bigger fish to fry at home.
- For quite a number of years now, they've had bigger fish to fry.
- But the people exploiting this saga have other fish to fry.
- To be honest it's a trivial matter and I have bigger fish to fry.
- But I think we have to put that anger and rage aside and wait until the appropriate time, because we have bigger fish to fry.
like shooting fish in a barrel picking cultivated berries is like shooting fish in a barrel Example sentencesExamples - Since then, every TV critic has savaged it, although it's like shooting fish in a barrel.
- And I agree with Jim, it's like shooting fish in a barrel.
- Signing on new clients was like shooting fish in a barrel.
- It's a bit like shooting fish in a barrel otherwise.
- Riling you up is like shooting fish in a barrel.
- But criticising these guys is kind of like shooting fish in a barrel.
- With a bit of luck it will be like shooting fish in a barrel.
- He says catching speeders these days is like shooting fish in a barrel - a sure revenue generator.
- Teenagers are too easy to make fun of - it's like shooting fish in a barrel, so why bother?
- Picking out this item or that for criticism seems unsportsmanlike, like shooting fish in a barrel.
neither fish nor fowl (nor good red herring) Of indefinite character and difficult to identify or classify. Example sentencesExamples - Everybody said when we started out that you can't do this, you won't make a success of it, you're neither fish nor fowl.
- Trying to satisfy all constituents, it has usually come down right in the middle - not a good place to be, neither fish nor fowl.
- Sixty-two is a strange age to be, neither fish nor fowl, nor good red herring, it seems to me but I'm glad to discover that I'm not too old to be thrilled at the prospect of a nice birthday present.
- ‘Now they are neither fish nor fowl and fewer students are taking them’, he said.
- Those suggestions are neither here nor there, neither fish nor fowl.
- The main reason for that is that they are neither fish nor fowl.
- Here's a work that is obscure only because it is neither fish nor fowl; it is not quite a concerto, yet at twelve minutes, it is too long to be an encore.
- The Tory peer, said: ‘The whole system has to be looked at afresh because at present it is neither fish nor fowl.’
- I will consider each of the complaints in some detail, one by one, but the fundamental difficulty is that the Defendant's case from a legal point of view is neither fish nor fowl.
- Creative nonfiction, however, is neither fish nor fowl.
Synonyms ambiguous, doubtful, unclear, uncertain, indistinct, indefinite, indeterminate, open to question, debatable
there are plenty more fish in the sea Used to console someone whose romantic relationship has ended by pointing out that there are many other people with whom they may have a successful relationship in the future. Example sentencesExamples - ‘Oh and I suppose you will tell me next that there are plenty more fish in the sea’ yelled Giles.
- How many more times do we have to remind you of this, he is just using you and there are plenty more fish in the sea, then you will see what love really is!
- Because if a relationship doesn't work out, they know there are plenty more fish in the sea.
the grayling here have hardly been fished out Example sentencesExamples - The herring was fished out by the 1970s.
- EU commissioner Mr Fischler said the cuts were essential to ensure species were not fished out of existence.
- The exploited species that are fished out in the fishing areas are abundant in marine reserves, as you might expect.
- Some anglers say sadly that the New Zealand rivers are all fished out.
- Cod is virtually fished out, and haddock will follow suit.
Origin Old English fisc (as a noun denoting any animal living exclusively in water), fiscian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vis, vissen and German Fisch, fischen. nounfɪʃfiSH A flat plate of metal, wood, or another material that is fixed on a beam or across a joint in order to give additional strength, especially on a ship's damaged mast or spar as a temporary repair.
verbfɪʃfiSH [with object]1Mend or strengthen (a beam, joint, mast, etc.) with a fish. - 1.1 Join (rails in a railroad track) with a fishplate.
Origin Early 16th century: probably from French fiche, from ficher ‘to fix’, based on Latin figere. |