fish out of water

Speech parts

1. fish out of water - Noun

2. fish out of water - Adjective

Meaning

fish out of water (plural fishes out of water or fish out of water)

(idiomatic) A person in unfamiliar and often uncomfortable surroundings.

fish-out-of-water (not comparable)

in which someone is out of their familiar environment; pertaining to a fish out of water

Alternative names

fish-out-of-water

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Examples

Urban folk, dealing as they do in ideas and abstractions, become conditioned to unreality. Then, wherever the fabric of civilization breaks, these people are as helpless as fish out of water. Jack Vance

In any professional setting, I'm a fish out of water on many levels, not just racially and culturally but also in the work I do, which involves many artistic disciplines... Dmae Roberts

You are a man now, and to be un hombre, a man must not only know right from wrong, he must also know who he is and who he isn't. Because if a man doesn't know who he is and who he isn't, then no matter how much he knows about right and wrong, he will always be like a fish out of water. Victor Villaseñor

We all know what flopping is when we see it. The stuff that you see is where guys aren't really getting hit at all and are just flailing around like a fish out of water. Kobe Bryant

You feel like a fish out of water. Traditional Proverb

A fish out of water storyline can work great, especially with a character who is so ingrained in his home country of Wakanda. Source: Internet

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