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Fish out of water
- Someone who is out of his or her normal environment or range of activities: “I felt like a fish out of water at the advanced technology conference.”
Example Sentences
Recently Crowder spoke with The Times about his Southern background, including his upbringing in a liberal family in a conservative area and his current life as a fish out of water living in Los Angeles.
"I wasn't beaten up like my character in Boarders is, but the feeling of not fully belonging was always there - I felt a bit like a fish out of water and isolated at times," he tells the BBC.
All that’s left of this eccentric transaction is the part where he’s the exotic fish out of water in one of Europe’s more remote, whiter corners.
That fish out of water story is just classic.
"I do feel like a fish out of water. The knock-on effects has been massive. I'm just riding the wave of it really," she said.
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