Sentence examples for fish the thing from inspiring English sources

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The strips at the top and bottom of the back are made of glass, the better to allow the wireless signal through — but as a side benefit, you can now tell which way is front as you fish the thing out of your pocket.

Seems pretty self-explanatory, though: attach cable to submarine, drop submarine into river of poo, pee, and bathwater, then pilot said submarine down to the poor sap on the other end of the pipe who's gotta fish the thing out and connect the cable to whatever needs rigged up.

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The fish is the thing.

Who would have thought fish was the thing to order?

But of course the filter tip was too buoyant to go down — even some of the ash stayed on the surface of the water — and in the end, after repeated, vain flushings, he had to fish the soggy thing out and wrap it in a wad of toilet tissue and carry it back to the office and throw it in the waste bin, where, he gloomily supposed, some cleaner or busybody janitor would nose it out and denounce him.

I'd still put it in a small pocket, so you don't have to go fishing for the thing if it were to detach.

I stroke the beam of my lamp slowly along the flank of something more permanent than fish or weed the thing I came for: the wreck and not the story of the wreck.

"There may be no fine restaurants and no symphony, but if you like the outdoors, mountain-bike trails, hunting, fishing, all the things with lakes and rivers, this is your place," said Judge Brigham.

Drew: Some snaggletoothed hag shouted, "Better luck next time, honey!" Martin: But the grossest was the fish thing.

"We have grown used over our history to bad harvests, seasons with no fish, the bad climate, things going up and down," said Olafur Hardarson, dean of social sciences at the University of Iceland.

So I ended up on an inspection ship round Greenland and the Faroe Islands, doing fishing inspections – checking the quotas, making sure they hadn't overfished or fished the wrong things.

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