fish for

释义

1. fish for sth

   旁敲侧击地打听；转弯抹角地谋取

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

   to fish for compliments / information转弯抹角地谋取恭维／打听情况

电影里这样说 · 295 部

• Fish for wall.The Terminal2004
• What, is he gonna fish for our dinner?The Edge1997
• And we talked about Banana fish for like 20 minutes.500 Days of Summer2009
• Or fish, look.The Prestige2006
• It's either this or fish.The Way Back2010
• This fish, The Beast...Big Fish2003
• But no fish?The Gift2015
• - No! - Fish!Chicken Little2005

同一词条的短语

• 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