fish out of waterとは意味・読み方・使い方

出典:『Wiktionary』 (2026/01/03 01:34 UTC 版)

語源

Earliest recorded uses: "fish out of the water" (1585, Lamentable Complaint of Commonality), "Fishes out of the Water" (1613, Samuel Purchas, Pilgrimage).
Earliest use of metaphor by Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales: Prologue (c. 1405) as "fissh þ is waterlees".

Compare also the antonymous French comme un poisson dans l'eau, German wie ein Fisch im Wasser.

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fish out of water (plural fishes out of water or fish out of water)

(idiomatic) A person in unfamiliar and often uncomfortable surroundings.

Synonym: square peg in a round hole
- 1921, Edgar Wallace, chapter 2, in The Book of All-Power:
  
  [I]nto this queer assembly, something of a fish out of water and wholly out of his element, strode Cherry Bim, that redoubtable man.
- 1942 May 25, “Sport: Pitcher Hits Ball”, in TIME‎, archived from the original on 18 October 2025, retrieved 2 October 2016:
  
  A pitcher at bat is usually considered such a fish out of water that he is expected to foul, ground or strike out.
- 1990 September 17, Larry Rohter, quoting Quincy Jones, “‘Fresh Prince of Bel Air’ Puts Rap in Mainstream”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, archived from the original on 21 March 2022:
  
  “The basis of this show is fish out of water,” said the executive producer, Quincy Jones, the music impresario who has never before put his name on a television series but whose work as producer of Michael Jackson 's albums won him respect in Hollywood as a canny judge of public tastes.
- 2004 December 22, Jennifer Medina, “Housewives, Try This for Desperation”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 10 March 2022, retrieved 2 October 2016:
  
  Many stay-at-home fathers find that they are fish out of water, too.

参考

like a duck takes to water

参照

↑ “to be like a fish out of water” under “fish, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

[OED-1] “to be like a fish out of water” under “fish, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.


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