The old shopkeeper fished a huge pickle up out of the barrel.
•He fished up a huge pickle.
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
fish something out (of something) — ˌfish sth/sbˈout (of sth) derived to take or pull sth/sb out of a place • She fished a piece of paper out of the pile on her desk. • They fished a dead body out of the river. Main entry: ↑fishderived … Useful english dictionary
fish something out — pull or take something out of water or a receptacle. → fish … English new terms dictionary
fish somebody out (of something) — ˌfish sth/sbˈout (of sth) derived to take or pull sth/sb out of a place • She fished a piece of paper out of the pile on her desk. • They fished a dead body out of the river. Main entry: ↑fishderived … Useful english dictionary
fish — fish1 [ fıʃ ] (plural fish or fish|es) noun *** 1. ) count an animal that lives in water and swims. It breathes by using its gills and moves by using its tail and fins . Saltwater fish live in the ocean and freshwater fish live in rivers and… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
fish out — transitive verb : to exhaust the supply of fish in by fishing this lake has been fished out * * * fish out [phrasal verb] fish (something) out or fish out (something) 1 : to pull (something) out of water or some other liquid … Useful english dictionary
fish — fish1 noun (plural same or fishes) 1》 a limbless cold blooded vertebrate animal with gills and fins, living wholly in water. ↘the flesh of fish as food. 2》 used in names of invertebrate animals living wholly in water, e.g. shellfish,… … English new terms dictionary
fish — I. /fɪʃ / (say fish) noun (plural fish or fishes) 1. any of various cold blooded, completely aquatic vertebrates, having gills, fins, and typically an elongated body usually covered with scales. 2. any of various other aquatic animals. 3. the… …
fish out — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms fish out : present tense I/you/we/they fish out he/she/it fishes out present participle fishing out past tense fished out past participle fished out 1) to pull someone or something out of the water A tourist… … English dictionary
fish out — PHRASAL VERB If you fish something out from somewhere, you take or pull it out, often after searching for it for some time. [INFORMAL] [V P n (not pron)] Kelly fished out another beer from his cooler... [V P n (not pron)] She fished out a pair of … English dictionary
fish — [fish] n. pl. fish; in referring to different species, fishes [ME < OE fisc, akin to Ger fisch, Du visch < IE base * pisk > L piscis] 1. any of three classes (jawless, cartilaginous, and bony fishes) of coldblooded vertebrate animals… … English World dictionary
fish — Ⅰ. fish [1] ► NOUN (pl. same or fishes) 1) a limbless cold blooded animal with a backbone, gills and fins, living wholly in water. 2) the flesh of fish as food. 3) informal a person who is strange in a specified way: he s a cold fish. ► VERB 1) … English terms dictionary
