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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
wet fish
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Oswald and his wife Jenny have been selling wet fish from their stall for 45 years.
▪ There was a wet fish shop just there and in my eagerness to escape I darted in.
Wiktionary
wet fish

n. Fresh fish intended to be cooked

Usage examples of "wet fish".

He looked as if she'd just smacked him in the face with a wet fish.

Janey and the Gaffer were among the last to leave, the Gaffer having an earnest conversation with Uncle Pat about the door-to-door wet fish business that the Gaffer ran from his home, making his deliveries in a beat-up old Austin stationwagon that was painted a bright yellow with the legend “.

Much later Krinata learned that Imp had found Jindigar's bed and had deposited the cold, wet fish under his nose, making him laugh for the first time.

Wally Woods, Brentfords foremost purveyor of wet fish, was a cold and slippery little customer.

He offered her a hand that resembled a wet fish, lightly twiddled his fingers near hers, and retrieved the hand before she could actually touch it.