fish out of water

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person in unfamiliar and often uncomfortable surroundings. idiomatic
    — [I]nto this queer assembly, something of a fish out of water and wholly out of his element, strode Cherry Bim, that redoubtable man.

词形变化

fishes out of water plural fish out of water plural

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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