fish tank
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of fish tank
First recorded in 1880-85
Example Sentences
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Arnold, the British director of Fish Tank and Red Road, prepared for her first American movie with an extensive cross-country road trip.
From The Verge • Sep. 29, 2016
JC: I was going to say that after her movie "Fish Tank," some people worried if she was box-office poisson.
From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2016
Andrea Arnold, who won in 2005, went on to make the feature films Fish Tank and Wuthering Heights.
From BBC • Feb. 6, 2014
Compared with the dire conditions found in Faridpur and Reynosa, the women who work at the Fish Tank have almost middle-class lives.
From Salon • May 18, 2012
The British trio are led by Fish Tank director Andrea Arnold, whose long-gestating new film is an adaptation of Emily Brontë's classic novel, Wuthering Heights, starring Skins' Kaya Scoledario.
From The Guardian • Jul. 28, 2011
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