Sentence examples for fish that got away from inspiring English sources

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The fish that got away had happier experiences.

But the fish that got away, Scientologists believed, was Steven Spielberg.

To the Chinese it was a huge loss of face, the big fish that got away.

I wasn't paying attention, my mind on the fish that got away, when I sliced through my finger.

If plot were the crucial measure, there'd be no difference between a story about the fish that got away and "Moby-Dick".

The first type is underestimating an opportunity, which leads to a "fish that got away" story like how Blockbuster could have bought Netflix.

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Every angler knows that there is never another fish like the one that got away.

You might say "Sharknado" is the one that got away, a fish far bigger in the telling than in real life.

The sorry state of ocean life has led to a new kind of fish story — a lament not for the one that got away but for the countless others that didn't.

He also has a bulletin board that looks like a fish on which unsolved cases go: "the ones that got away".

THE oldest fish story in Southampton is not about the one that got away, but was written on parchment and kept in a vault in town hall.

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