fishing expedition
A search for information, especially incriminating information, that is conducted without specific direction or goal, in the hope that something may turn up.
fishing
UK /ˈfɪʃɪŋ/ US /ˈfɪʃɪŋ/
noun 4
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noun
1
The act of catching fish.
We had a good day's fishing at the weekend.
Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house ; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something ; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.
2
The act of catching other forms of seafood, separately or together with fish.
3
Commercial fishing: the business or industry of catching fish and other seafood for sale.
This is good news for the fishing industry.
4
A fishery, a place for catching fish.
the rent of the fishings
Generally speaking, the only fishings which appear separately in Valuation Rolls as having a lettable value in their actual state from year to year are salmon-fishings.
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