fish for

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fish for 的定义

  1. Try to obtain something through artifice or indirectly. For example, He was always fishing for compliments, or, as William Makepeace Thackeray put it in Vanity Fair: “The first woman who fishes for him, hooks him.” [Mid-1500s]

fish for 近义词

v. 动词 verb

look for; hint

更多fish for例句

  1. When Chérif got out of prison, he worked at the fish counter of a supermarket.
  2. Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.
  3. “The government just wanted to catch the big fish [in the Juarez cartel] and they ignored everything in between,” Lozoya said.
  4. There was no mistaking this for the gaudiness and gilt of made-for-TV awards shows.
  5. Given the potential for a cyber tit-for-tat to escalate, Obama has even more incentive to find a diplomatic solution.
  6. He must be The saltest fish that swims the sea.And, oh!He has a secret woe!
  7. He looked up from his fish and replied, somewhat cuttingly, "By contesting a borough and getting elected."
  8. Smoking, the angry and fuming king protests, had made our manners as rude as those of the fish-wives of Dieppe.
  9. But what if I catch the fish by using a hired boat and a hired net, or by buying worms as bait from some one who has dug them?
  10. The Taube has been bothering us again, but wound up its manœuvres very decently by killing some fish for our dinner.