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单词 a fishing expedition
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a fishing expedition

mainly US

an attempt to discover the facts about something by collecting a lot of information, often secretly:

The investigators' request for the company's accounts is simply a fishing expedition - they have no real evidence of wrongdoing.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Finding and discovering

  • alight
  • ascertain
  • break fresh/new ground idiom
  • breakthrough
  • catch sb red-handed idiom
  • catch sb with their pants/trousers down idiom
  • flush
  • get wind of sth idiom
  • happen
  • happen on/upon sth/sb
  • have a (good) nose for sth idiom
  • have got something there idiom
  • root sth/sb out
  • run sb/sth to ground idiom
  • scent
  • search
  • search sth/sb out
  • smell
  • sniff sth out
  • stumble

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