fish out
verb- 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).
- 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.· I fished out some information from some old copies of the local gazette.
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“Seals, turtles, salmon, and so on; then, when you’ve cleared all the jelly-fish out of the way—”
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