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poor fish

n. a person who is not very bright; "The economy, stupid!" [syn: stupid, stupid person, dullard, dolt, pudding head, pudden-head, pillock]

Usage examples of "poor fish".

We simply lay in the bottom of the boat, which we were now physically incapable of directing, feeling like hot embers, and I fancy undergoing very much the same sensations that the poor fish do when they are dying on land -- namely, that of slow suffocation.

No telling what would remain of your poor fish if I actually attempted to clean it!

He could guess the weight as soon as he hooked up, then furiously skitter the poor fish across the surface into the boat.

It isuseless to argue with him upon that head: in fact, it is muchworse than useless, because the last time I begged him to letme go with Fish, for one week, only to see the sights, he wentto bed, and stayed there for a fortnight, and would donothing but throw things at Spiddle and poor Fish, and groanin the most affecting way whenever I entered his room!

Ignorinsers' bliss, therefore, their not to say rifle butt target, none too wisefolly, poor fish, (he is eating, he is spun, is milked, he dives) upholding a lampthorne of lawstift as wand of welcome to all men in bonafay, (and the corollas he so has saved gainsts the virus he has thus injected !

She'd been shocked when she saw the rock come down on the head of the poor fish.