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fish-out-of-water

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

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Its deficiencies were tolerated from the first fish-out-of-water, through amphibians and dinosaurs, to modern birds, and from amphibians through mammal-like reptiles to mammals like us.