Wiktionary
vb. 1 To deplete the supply of fish in a given body of water. 2 (context idiomatic English) To search for by rummage, and then extract (an item from e.g. a container).
Usage examples of "fish out".
Sulun stuffed the tablet in his bag beside the others, tried once more to pinch the pervasive stink of tar and rotting fish out of his nose, and headed gratefully for the gangplank.
It twitched and writhed like a fish out of water, which it was, even if it looked eely in the extreme.
I was dreaming of catching river fish, sliding my hands into the water and abruptly flipping the lurking fish out onto the bank behind me.
They check the bilge pump filters and fish out any debris floating in the bilgewater.
The word traveled swiftly up and down the coast, and by nightfall the downtown streets were crowded with people who had come from as far away as South Point and the Waipio Valley to see for themselves if the rumor was really true -- that Lono had, in fact, returned in the form of a huge drunken maniac who dragged fish out of the sea with his bare hands and then beat them to death on the dock with a short-handled Samoan war club.
He, meanwhile, had hooked some fat fish out of the inlet and gutted them with beak and talon, offering the delectible innards to Ornette first.
To pick the small fish out of its formalin bath and slip it into Mr Krests gaping mouth would have only needed seconds.
To pick the small fish out of its formalin bath and slip it into Mr Krest's gaping mouth would have only needed seconds.
To pick the small fish out of its formalin bath and slip it into Mr Krest’.