Meaning of fish out | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To catch all or nearly all the fish in (a given body of water), so that few or none remain.
2. To pick up or pull something or someone from (a body of water).
3. To search for by rummaging, and then extract (an item from e.g. a container); to obtain.
   idiomatic

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Examples

“Settlers came and soon fished out the lake.”

“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.”

“I fished out my keys from the bottom of my bag.”

“I fished out some information from some old copies of the local gazette.”

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