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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 )
Bait and switch
Big
fish
eat little
fish
Big
fish
in a small pool ( someone considered influential compared to their less significant peers )
Bigger
fish
to fry
Booby
trap
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Click bait ( an eye ctaching word or image on a website )
Cold
fish
Cry stinking
fish
Cut bait
Death
trap
Different kettle of
fish
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Drink like a
fish
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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Fox
trap
Give a man a
fish
and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to
fish
and you feed him for a lifetime
Got bigger
fish
to fry
Honey
trap
I can resist everything except
temptation
( Oscar Wilde quotation )
Jail bait
Jew baiting
Keep your
trap
shut
Lead into
temptation
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 )
Neither
fish
nor flesh, nor good red herring
Odd
fish
Pony and
trap
( Cockney rhyming slang for crap )
Pretty kettle of
fish
Queer
fish
Rise to the bait
School of
fish
Shut your
trap
So long and thanks for all the
fish
(line from Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide)
Sprat to catch a mackerel
Take the bait
The Flying
Fisherman
( Nickname of Roscoe Vernon Gaddis )
The Parent
Trap
( Hayley Mills movie )
The Tender
Trap
( Frank Sinatra movie )
There's plenty more
fish
in the sea
To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people! ( line from the movie A
Fish
Called Wanda )
Tourist
trap
Trap
and ball ( children's ball game )
Wet
fish
What does that have to do with the price of fish?