fish out
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[edit]fish out (third-person singular simple present fishes out, present participle fishing out, simple past and past participle fished out)
- To catch all or nearly all the fish in (a given body of water), so that few or none remain.
- Settlers came and soon fished out the lake.
- To pick up or pull something or someone from (a body of water).
- 2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 5:34 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?[1], archived from the original on 3 November 2022:
- Losing nearly a third of the heavy cruisers, including Admiral Kurita's flagship, the Atago, was not an especially-auspicious start to the operation, especially with the admiral himself having to be fished out of the water by a destroyer.
- (idiomatic) To search for by rummaging, and then extract (an item from e.g. a container); to obtain.
- I fished out my keys from the bottom of my bag.