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A person away from his or her usual environment or activities. For example, Using a computer for the first time, Carl felt like a fish out of water , or On a hiking trail, Nell was a fish out of water . This expression alludes to the fact that fish cannot survive for long on dry land. [Late 1300s]

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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