A person in unfamiliar, and often uncomfortable, surroundings.
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- Earliest recorded use: "Fishes out of the Water". Earliest use of metaphor by Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales: Prologue as "fissh that is waterlees".
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[I]nto this queer assembly, something of a fish out of water and wholly out of his element, strode Cherry Bim, that redoubtable man.
Submitted on July 10, 2018
Additional definitions for 'fish out of water':
| Fish Out of Water | To feel uncomfortable and out of place while adjusting in a place or situation |
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pez fuera del agua
Un poisson hors de l'eau
рыба из воды
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