Examples of 'fishing expedition' in a sentence
Meaning of "fishing expedition"
A fishing expedition is a term used to describe a search or inquiry that is conducted without specific goals or objectives. It refers to a situation where someone is looking for information or evidence without having a clear or specific target in mind
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- A search for information, especially incriminating information, that is conducted without specific direction or goal, in the hope that something may turn up.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fishing, expedition. (an outing for catching fish)
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It means their fishing expedition came up empty.
That does not open her up to a fishing expedition.
To go on a fishing expedition for his next one.
I thought you guys were going on that fishing expedition.
This fishing expedition ends here.
My daughter is missing and you are on a fishing expedition.
This is a fishing expedition on your part.
We do not have time for a fishing expedition.
This is a fishing expedition at this point.
I can not send you on a fishing expedition.
Your fishing expedition is over.
Which is the very definition of a fishing expedition.
Because that fishing expedition is over.
He looked like a desperate man on a fishing expedition.
Someone is on a fishing expedition for information.
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He had gone down to the sea on a fishing expedition.
The big fishing expedition.
Link baiting looks at linking as a fishing expedition.
Not for a fishing expedition.
I was thinking more along the lines of a fishing expedition.
On a fishing expedition for a mistrial.
Some might call this a fishing expedition.
For fishing expedition.
This was not his first fishing expedition.
Said we were on a fishing expedition that was pissing off some very important people.
This is nothing but a fishing expedition.
On a fishing expedition.
They are on some kind of fishing expedition.
Join a fishing expedition and learn the different traditional techniques used.
You were on a little fishing expedition were not you.
Or you are using a cop getting killed to go on a fishing expedition.
We need to go on a fishing expedition of our own.
You are asking me to get a subpoena for a fishing expedition.
That is a fishing expedition.
I thought that they would go to the fishing expedition.
You on a fishing expedition or.
Perhaps we should go on a little fishing expedition.
It was a fishing expedition.
Rituals ensured the success of the fishing expedition.
A historic fishing expedition was also conducted in Russia.
I will not condone a fishing expedition.
My fishing expedition with Steven Frost was not a complete bust.
Time to end the fishing expedition.
We are not sending a black ops team into a hostile country on a fishing expedition.
How can you go on a fishing expedition like that.
The general request constitutes an unwarranted fishing expedition.
Talk about a fishing expedition.
Since you are posing as sportsmen on a hunting and fishing expedition.
This is not a fishing expedition.
And all you are using is a cop getting killed to go on a fishing expedition.
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The expedition was not to have any witness
It means their fishing expedition came up empty
Their expedition disappeared two years ago
Examples of using Fishing
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You will do some fishing by the lake
Good fishing if you are ever here again
He just went night fishing all night long
