make fish of one and fowl of the other

To favor one person or thing over another, often in a discriminatory fashion. The phrase refers to the now-outdated practice of categorizing meat as fish, flesh, or fowl. I can't stand how unfairly you treat your sons—stop making fish of one and fowl of the other!

See also: and, fish, fowl, make, of, one, other

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make fish of one and flesh of another
make fish of one and flesh of the other
make fish of one and fowl of another
work up to the collar
in soaped-pig fashion
pull caps
information, please
a crystal set
crystal set
wigs on the green

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