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like a fish out of water



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see fish out of water .
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"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.

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"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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Although Duthiers succeeded in finance, he felt like a fish out of water.

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“David would be like a fish out of water if he were out of public service,” Bumpers, who served 18 years with Pryor in the Senate, said in 2006.

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I’ve said that it looked like a fish out of water, just on a dock, suffocating to death.

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