fish out of water

短语

发音

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词形变化

fishes out of water 复数 fishes out of water

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A person in unfamiliar and often uncomfortable surroundings.

    习语

词源

* Earliest recorded uses: "fish out of the water" (1585, Lamentable Complaint of Commonality), "Fishes out of the Water" (1613, Samuel Purchas, Pilgrimage). * Earliest use of metaphor by Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales: Prologue (c. 1405) as "fissh þᵗ is waterlees". Compare also the antonymous French comme un poisson dans l'eau, German wie ein Fisch im Wasser.

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