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fishily |
fishiness |
fishing |
fishing boat |
fishing eagle |
fishing expedition
| fishing gear
| fishing licence
| fishing license
| fishing line
| fishing net
fishing expedition
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun fishing expedition has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
fishing expedition, n.
An investigation searching for evidence of wrongdoing, with no credible evidence of such wrongdoing available at the outset of the investigation, and often without specifying in advance the wrongdoing to be proven. [PJC]
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