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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a flounder" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a type of fish or metaphorically to describe someone who is struggling or confused.
Example: "After the sudden change in plans, he felt like a flounder trying to navigate the new situation."
Alternatives: "a fish" or "a confused person".
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A flounder?
He had never seen a flounder until he came here.
She caught a flounder, brought it up for them.
True, she seemed to have the public persona of a flounder.
It'll cook as evenly as a flounder fillet, and probably in four minutes tops.
He continues the following day: ET as exciting as a flounder temporarily….
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It was not his first experience in the kitchen: the summer after finishing high school, he had been a dishwasher at the Flagship, a flounder-and-fried-clams restaurant in Provincetown.
It gets sprinkled invisibly on a floundering, splintered team, which overnight coalesces into an efficient machine.
Neuroenhancers are perfectly suited for the anxiety of white-collar competition in a floundering economy.
Will declared Obama a "floundering naïf" and someone advancing "lemon socialism".
Johnson bristled at the suggestion the Jets were a floundering franchise.
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