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fishing 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: expedition, fishing


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There was a merry breakfast, a successful fishing expedition, and then the lobsters came out in full force, for even Aunt Jessie appeared in red flannel.
He is kind enough to say that he would have liked nothing better, but for this little fishing expedition of yours, Mr.
Hell was very far off, and the delights of a fishing expedition with the Cottons were very near.
 
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