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A Fish Called Wanda ( John Cleese movie )
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
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All is fish that comes to the net
Alligator
bait
( a reference to the alleged practice of using black babies to lure alligators into traps )
Angle
for
Are We Downhearted? No! No! No! (
Ray
Sherwood song )
As fat as a beached
whale
As happy as a
clam
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As long as your arm
As slippery as an
eel
Bait
and switch
Beef and reef
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Below
par
Big fish eat little fish
Big fish in a small pool ( someone considered influential compared to their less significant peers )
Bigger fish to fry
Bleak
House ( Charles Dickens book )
Boom Boom ( Nickname of boxer
Ray
Mancini )
Bottom feeder
Built to
scale
Cast the net wide
Catch as catch can
Catch of the day
Champagne wishes and
caviar
dreams ( Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous sign-off )
Cheap
skate
Clam
up
Click
bait
( an eye ctaching word or image on a website )
Cock a
snook
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Cold fish
Cry stinking fish
Cut
bait
Dab
hand at
Different kettle of fish
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Dolphin
friendly
Don't come the raw
prawn
Done up like a
kipper
Drink like a fish
Dropped off the
perch
Drum n
bass
Economy of
scale
Fish always rot from the head downwards
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Fish and finger pie ( Beatles song lyric )
Fish and guests smell after three days
Fish it out
Fish or cut
bait
Fish out
Fish out of water
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Fishing
expedition
Fishing
for compliments
Flirty
fishing
Georgia On My Mind (
Ray
Charles song )
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime
Gone
fishing
Got bigger fish to fry
Green around the gills
Hallelujah, I Love Her So (
Ray
Charles song )
Hit The Road Jack (
Ray
Charles song )
Holy
mackerel
Holy mackerel! ( A catchphrase from Kingfish In Amos 'N' Andy Show )
Hook line and sinker
Hunky
dory
( 1971 album by David Bowie )
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Hunt
down
I Can't Stop Loving You (
Ray
Charles song )
I Got A Woman (
Ray
Charles song )
In An Octopus's Garden In The Shade ( The Beatles song )
In The
Bleak
Midwinter ( Christmas Carol title )
Jack
Sprat
could eat no fat ( line from nursery rhyme )
Jack the Dripper ( Nickname of Jackson
Pollack
)
Jail
bait
Jesus Shuttlesworth ( Nickname of
Ray
Allen )
Jump the
shark
Killer
Ray
( Nickname of
Ray
Allen )
Like a fish out of water
Like shooting fish in a barrel
Little fish in a big pond ( someone considered unimportant compared to their more significant peers )
Loan
shark
Muscle
bound
Muscle
in on
Muscle
man
My Ding A
Ling
( Chuck Berry song )
Neither fish nor flesh, nor good red
herring
Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish ( Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band song )
Octopus's Garden ( The Beatles song )
Odd fish
Off the
scale
Old
trout
On a grand
scale
On a
par
with
Only the best for the Captain's table ( Birdseye advertising slogan )
Par
excellence
Par
for the course
Pink pantella
puffer
( slang term for a homosexual )
Pretty kettle of fish
Put some
muscle
into it
Queer fish
Ray
Of Light ( Madonna album )
Ray
of light
Red
herring
Rise to the
bait
Run with the hare and
hunt
with the hounds
Save the
whale
Scale
the dizzy heights
School of fish
Sea
Bass
( Nickname of Sebastian Janikowski )
Semolina
pilchard
climbing up the Eiffel Tower ( Beatles song lyric )
Shark
repellent
Shoot a birdie ( score one under
par
in a golf shot )
Sleeping with the
fishes
Smack
dab
in the middle
Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast ( A catchphrase from Red Dwarf )
So long and thanks for all the fish (line from Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide)
Sprat
to catch a
mackerel
Sugar
Ray
Robinson ( Nickname of Walker Smith Jr. )
Super
Bass
( Nicki Minaj song )
Surf and turf
Swim with sharks
Take These Chains From My Heart (
Ray
Charles song )
Take the
bait
That dog won't
hunt
The Big
Tuna
( Nickname of Bill Parcells )
The Crab ( Nickname of
Ray
Wilkins )
The Flying
Fisherman
( Nickname of Roscoe Vernon Gaddis )
The Great White
Shark
( Nickname of Greg Norman )
The Little Mermaid ( Disney cartoon movie )
The Prince of Wails ( Nickname of Johnny
Ray
)
The Rain Man ( Nickname of
Ray
Allen )
The
Shark
( Nickname of Jeff Samardzija )
The
halibut
capital of the world ( Nickname of Homer Alaska )
The piece of
cod
that passeth all understanding
The thrill of the
hunt
The world is your
oyster
There's plenty more fish in the sea
Throw another
shrimp
on the barbie ( Australian Tourist Commission advertising slogan )
To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people! ( line from the movie A Fish Called Wanda )
Trout
pout
Up to
par
Wet fish
Whale
of a time
What does that have to do with the price of fish?
Whipper
snapper
Witch
hunt