a fishing expedition
a fishing expedition
a search for information without knowledge of whether such information exists. (This involves asking questions with no preconceived notion of what the answers might reveal.)
The lawyer was on a fishing expedition. There was no real wrong committed to justify a lawsuit.
Your honor, the prosecutor is just on a clumsy fishing expedition. I move for dismissal.
We are going to have to go on a fishing expedition to try to find the facts.
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- A burnt child dreads the fire.
- a clean bill of health
- adapt so or sth to sth
- a few cards shy of a full deck
- a fix
- a glut on the market
- a good egg
- a grandfather clause
- agree
- a jack of all trades is a master of none.
- all hours (of the day and night)
- all in one piece
- all over (some place)
- along
- a lucky break
- a meeting of the minds
- and what have you
- an earful
- an even break
- annex sth to sth
- an offer one cannot refuse
