FISH OUT

Bungler

Land lubber; fresh water sailor, fair weather sailor; horse marine; fish out of water, ass in lion's skin,land lubber; fresh water sailor, fair weather sailor; horse marine; fish out of water, ass in lion's skin, jackdaw in peacock's feathers; quack; (deceiver); lord of misrule.

Disagreement

Fish out of water.

Discovery

Verb: discover, find, determine, evolve, learn; fix upon; pick up; find out, trace out, make out, hunt out, fish out, worm out, ferret out, root out; fathom; bring out, draw out; educe, elicit, bring to light; dig out, grub up, fish up; unearth, disinter.

Displacement

Misplacement, dislocation; fish out of water.

Inquiry

Look into every hole and corner, peer into every hole and corner, pry into every hole and corner; nose; trace up; search out, hunt down, hunt out, fish out, ferret out; unearth; leave no stone unturned.

Unconformity

Fish out of water; neither one thing nor another, neither fish nor fowl, neither fish flesh nor fowl nor good red herring; one in a million, one in a way, one in a thousand; outcast, outlaw; off the beaten track; oasis.

Crosswords: FISH OUT

Books

• A Fish Out of Water (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Fish Out of Time: A Quest for the Coelacanth (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A fish out of water. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Expressions using "FISH OUT": feel like a fish out of water ♦ fish out of water. Additional references.

Albanian

nxjerr (belch, conclude, derive, discharge, discover, display, distil, distill, divulge, drag out, draw, educe, eject, elicit, emit, evolve, excrete, exhale, exhibit, exhume, expel, extract, extricate, extrude, feature, gain, generate, get off, get out, give away, give off, hatch, heave, hustle, incubate, infer, issue, lay out, leak, let off, let out, liberate, lift out, make out, move out, obtrude, out, pan out, pop, puff, pull, pull out, raise, release, rip out, rout, run against, secrete, send, spit, stick, stick out, take out, tear off, turf out, turn away, uncase, unearth, utter, vomit, whiffle), gjuaj plotësisht. (various references)

Bulgarian 

улавям всичката риба в, изваждам (abstract, bring on, bring out, deduct, draw, draw out, drive out, eject, excerpt, extract, fetch, gouge, knock out, lay out, move out, oust, pick, pick up, pull, put out, subduct, subtract, take away, take from, take out, turn up, uncase, unpin, unship, whip out), измъквам (disentangle, drag out, drag up, extract, extricate, ferret out, finagle, get away, mulct, pry, rip out, rout up, rummage out, shake down, slip away, tap, wheedle, worm). (various references)

Chinese 

掏 , 搯 . (various references)

Czech

vytáhnout z vody, vylovit (dredge). (various references)

Danish

affiske (deplete of fish). (various references)

Dutch

bij het vissen naar een gebroken boorpijp wordt van een vangklok(overshot)gebruik gemaakt en bij het naar boven halen van diverse afvalstukken van een schrootmand(junk basket) (and to retrieve small items of debris, to fish out a broken pipe an overshot is used). (various references)

Finnish

kuin kala kuivalla maalla (like a fish out of water). (various references)

French

pour repêcher une tige cassée,on utilise une cloche de repêchage � coins(overshot)et pour extraire des débris divers,un panier � ferraille(junk basket) (to fish out a broken pipe an overshot is used), la "poire" sert � extraire un élément tubulaire,l'aimant � repêcher des débris d'acier,le crochet redresseur � rattraper une tige engagée contre la paroi (a magnet to fish out steel debris and a wall hook to recover stuck pipe). (various references)

German

herausfischen, herausangeln, auffischen (fish up, to fish up). (various references)

Greek 

το "αχλάδι" χρησιμεύει,για να βγάλουμε ένα σωληνοειδές στοιχείο,ο μαγνήτης,για να ψαρέψουμε τα θρύμματα του χάλυβα,ο γάντζος ανυψώσεως,για � (a magnet to fish out steel debris and a wall hook to recover stuck pipe). (various references)

Hebrew 

למשות (draw out, extricate, rescue), לשלוף (draw out, pull off, take off, unsheathe). (various references)

Hungarian

kihalász (to fish out, to fish up, to rummage out, to rummage up). (various references)

Italian

ripescare (find, rustle up). (various references)

Pig Latin

ishfay outay.(various references)

Romanian

pescui tot peştele. (various references)

Russian 

выуживать, выплывать. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

izvaditi (draw, extract, pull out, retrieve, take out, withdraw). (various references)

Spanish

para extraer una varilla rota se utiliza una campana de pesca (overshot) y para recuperar diversos restos, una cesta de chatarra (junk basket) (a junk basket, and to retrieve small items of debris, to fish out a broken pipe an overshot is used). (various references)

Swedish

fiska upp (fish up). (various references)

Turkish

bulup çıkarmak (find out, fish), arayıp bulmak (scare up, search out, seek out). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: outfish.

-2 letters: foist, hoist, shift, shout, south, thous, tofus.

-3 letters: fish, fist, fits, hist, hits, host, hots, huts, oust, outs, shot, shut, sift, sith, soft, soth, suit, thio, this, thou, thus, tofu, tosh, tuis, tush.

-4 letters: fit, foh, fou, his, hit, hot, hut, ifs, its, oft, ohs, out, sit, sot, sou, tho, tis, tui, uts.

+2 letters: outfights, outfished, outfishes.

+3 letters: muttonfish, outfishing.

+4 letters: foxhuntings, thiosulfate.

+5 letters: foresightful, fucoxanthins, muttonfishes, thiosulfates.