OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 19566

fish out of water

Meanings (ES + gloss)
como pez fuera del agua
A person in unfamiliar and often uncomfortable surroundings.
A pitcher at bat is usually considered such a fish out of water that he is expected to foul, ground or strike out.
[I]nto this queer assembly, something of a fish out of water and wholly out of his element, strode Cherry Bim, that redoubtable man.
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