fish for

Significado

1. fish for sth

   to try to get sth, or to find out sth, although you are pretending not to

   to fish for compliments / information

En las películas · 296

• Fish for wall.The Terminal2004
• And we talked about Banana fish for like 20 minutes.500 Days of Summer2009
• The flying fish The flying fishShark Tale2004
• It's a fish! LI: It's a fish!Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas2003
• And it's not the fish.A Cinderella Story2004
• There will be plenty of fish there.The Way Back2010
• ...into a wee fish.Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince2009
• What, is he gonna fish for our dinner?The Edge1997

De la misma entrada

• a fish out of water
• have bigger fish to fry
• neither fish nor fowl
• an odd queer fish
• there are plenty more fish in the sea
• a big fish
• a cold fish
• a different kettle of fish
• drink like a fish
• be like shooting fish in a barrel
• fish out