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expedition
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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.
See also: fishing
a fishing expedition  (mainly American)
an attempt to discover the facts about something by collecting a lot of information, often secretly The investigators' request for the company's accounts is simply a fishing expedition - they have no real evidence of wrongdoing.
See also: fishing
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As a teacher who is involved in youth expeditioning and exchange visits that depend on the goodwill of ordinary people who are prepared to help out, I have reason to fear and resent the interfering arrogance of mandarins like Sir Roger Singleton.
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It just seems like a little glitch in my expeditioning.
I'm on the longest expedition, taking life one day at a time; Paul ... by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
 
 
 
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