fish wrapper

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fish wrapper (plural fish wrappers)

  1. Synonym of fish wrap.
    • 1969 May 12, E. C. Stevens, “Looking glass by E. C. Stevens: The big questions”, in Lompoc Record, number 28, Lompoc, Calif., page 12, column 5:
      Using his arms as if he planned to en­circle a giant globe, Dad folded the lat­est edition of the local fish wrapper into something akin to its original shape. The final crease hid a portion of the headline blaring the news of Justice Abe Fortas’ $20,000 fee []
    • 2006, Sandra Scoppettone, chapter 1, in Too Darn Hot: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published 2007, →ISBN, page 1:
      I’d had two murders since last spring, solved them both. The first one was prime and it got a lotta attention in the fish wrappers, so I had a bunch of clients for a while. Just cause people saw my name in the paper they figured I was the best []
    • 2012, James Dodson, “The University of Golf”, in American Triumvirate: Sam Snead, Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan, and the Modern Age of Golf, New York, N.Y.: Alfred. A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 110:
      Late in the summer of 1936, flush with $75 from winning the West Virginia Open in a playoff, Sam Snead took the train to New York and briefly got lost in the crowds but managed his connection to Pennsylvania for the $5,000 Hershey Open. [] “I looked at Hershey as a chance to see the big guns I’d been reading about in the fish wrappers, to see if I stood any chance up against ’em.”