| 单词 | to be like a fish out of water |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be (also feel) like a fish out of water a. a nice (also pretty) kettle of fish (colloquial): an awkward state of things, a ‘muddle’. to be (also feel) like a fish out of water: to be or feel out of one's element. drunk (dull, mute) as a fish: very drunk (etc.). to drink like a fish: to drink excessively. to feed the fishes: (a) to meet one's death by drowning; (b) to be seasick. all is fish that comes to (also †in) (his) net: i.e. nothing comes amiss to him, he turns everything to account. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > [phrase] > turn everything to account all is fish that comes to (also in) (his) net1523 all is grist that comes to his mill1885 the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [verb (intransitive)] to drink deepa1300 bousec1300 bibc1400 to drink drunk1474 quaff1520 to set cock on the hoopa1535 boll1535 quass1549 tipple1560 swillc1563 carouse1567 guzzle1579 fuddle1588 overdrink1603 to drink the three outs1622 to bouse it1623 sota1639 drifflec1645 to drink like a fisha1653 tope1668 soak1687 to play at swig1688 to soak one's clay (or face)1704 impote1721 rosin1730 dram1740 booze1768 to suck (also sup) the monkey1785 swattle1785 lush1811 to lift up the little finger1812 to lift one's (or the) elbow1823 to crook one's elbow or little finger1825 jollify1830 to bowse up the jib1836 swizzle1847 peg1874 to hit the booze, bottle, jug, pot1889 to tank up1902 sozzle1937 to belt the bottle1941 indulge1953 the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk > completely or very drunk drunk as a (drowned) mousea1350 to-drunka1382 as drunk as the devilc1400 sow-drunk1509 fish-drunk1591 swine-drunk1592 gone1603 far gone1616 reeling drunk1620 soda1625 souseda1625 blind1630 full1631 drunk (also merry, tipsy) as a lord1652 as full (or tight) as a tick1678 clear1688 drunk (dull, mute) as a fish1700 as drunk as David's sow or as a sow1727 as drunk as a piper1728 blind-drunkc1775 bitch foua1796 blootered1820 whole-seas over1820 three sheets in the wind1821 as drunk as a loon1830 shellaced1881 as drunk as a boiled owl1886 stinking1887 steaming drunk1892 steaming with drink1897 footless1901 legless1903 plastered1912 legless drunk1926 stinko1927 drunk as a pissant1930 kaylied1937 langers1949 stoned1952 smashed1962 shit-faced1963 out of (also off) one's bird1966 trashed1966 faced1968 stoned1968 steaming1973 langered1979 annihilated1980 obliterated1984 wankered1992 muntered1998 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > have digestive disorder [verb (intransitive)] > of person: feel nausea > types of nausea to tell what wood the ship is made of1580 to feed the fishes1870 the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > feeling wearied or bored [phrase] > wearisome or tedious (as) flat as a pancake1611 drunk (dull, mute) as a fish1889 crack is wack1986 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccccxvi. 727 Suche as came after toke all..for all was fysshe that came to net. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage vi. xii. 636 The Arabians out of the desarts are as Fishes out of the Water. a1653 Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) 48 All's fish that comes in net. 1654 T. Gataker Disc. Apol. 7 He is as mute as a fish. 1700 W. Congreve Way of World iv. i. 61 Thou art both as drunk and as mute as a Fish. 1744 T. Gray Let. 26 Apr. in Corr. (1971) I. 225 Mr. Trollope & I are in a course of Tar-water;..I drink like a Fish. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Transl. French Terms Faire toutes Voiles blanches, to cruise as a pirate; to make all fish that comes to the net. 1821 J. G. Lockhart Let. 13 July He..drinks like a fish. 1837 T. Hood Drinking Song xi He's the..drinker that verily ‘drinks like a fish!’ 1840 F. Marryat Poor Jack xi. 71 You're as mute as a fish. 1865 J. G. Bertram Harvest of Sea vii. 319 Being a commission agent, it is all fish that comes to my net. 1870 H. Meade Ride New Zealand 313 His first act was to appease the fishes..by feeding them most liberally. 1879 M. E. Braddon Cloven Foot vii A woman who drank like a fish and swore like a trooper. 1886 S. Baring-Gould Court Royal vi The lawyer..was as a fish out of water here. 1889 R. Bridges Feast of Bacchus iv And there you stand, As dull as a fish! 1937 A. J. Cronin Citadel i. ii. 19 I better anticipate the gay tidings—I drink like a fish. < as lemmas |
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