Synonyms for fishing expedition

Grammar : Noun

Définition of fishing expedition

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Example sentences :

There must be abstinence from the sex relation before a fishing expedition.
Extract from : « Folkways » by William Graham Sumner

This is a fishing expedition in the truest sense of the word.
Extract from : « Smugglers' Reef » by John Blaine

It asked for the blessing of God on the fishing expedition which was about to set out.
Extract from : « The Deemster » by Hall Caine

You intend to go on that fishing expedition with Jimmy Dumble to-morrow?
Extract from : « The Zeppelin's Passenger » by E. Phillips Oppenheim

Excuse my costume, but I am just back from a fishing expedition.
Extract from : « The Zeppelin's Passenger » by E. Phillips Oppenheim

He then would know that Kauhuhu was returning from his fishing expedition.
Extract from : « Hawaiian Folk Tales » by Various

This time the kingfisher answered them, for he was just back from a fishing expedition.
Extract from : « Punch, July 18, 1917 » by Various

I had a small yacht there of ten tons, and many a fishing expedition I have had in her of a bright, warm summer's day.
Extract from : « Sporting Society, Vol. II (of 2) » by Various

Ratu Lala thought this would be a good opportunity for us to make a fishing expedition to Vuna.
Extract from : « Wanderings Among South Sea Savages And in Borneo and the Philippines » by H. Wilfrid Walker

The salmon didn't run as usual, and his fishing expedition was a failure.
Extract from : « The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 39, August 5, 1897 » by Various

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