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fish for
Search for something, as in I've fished for it in all the drawers . [First half of 1700s]
Try to obtain something through artifice or indirectly. For example, He was always fishing for compliments , or, as William Makepeace Thackeray put it in Vanity Fair (1848): “The first woman who fishes for him, hooks him.” [Mid-1500s]
Example Sentences
"I was half way through breading fish for tea, it ran through the three bowls which I had to throw away," Donna said.
For decades it has been illegal to fish for, catch, or keep any species of abalone in California — except for some permitted harvesting of red abalone north of San Francisco during designated periods.
You’ll make two different salsas and tortillas and even fish for your trout on their on-site fish farm.
"I went to the market today to buy frozen fish for the first time," Asmaa says.
A seven-year-old boy pulled an unexploded artillery shell from a river while using magnets to fish for treasure.
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