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/fˈɪʃɪŋ ˌɛkspədˈɪʃən/ Listen

Fishing expedition

noun

An investigation undertaken in the hope (but not the stated purpose) of discovering information.

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"Fishing expedition" Quotes from Famous Books

... test as to this same obedience. The pupils, who are by this time familiars of the party, had devised a boating and fishing expedition for all the enterprising, which was satisfactory to the elders because it was to include both the fathers. Unluckily, however, this morning's post brought a summons to Martyn and Mary to fulfil an engagement they have ...

— More Bywords • Charlotte M. Yonge

... second helping, the big Frenchman entered into conversation with Phil. He seemed satisfied with Phil's answer to his query as to what he was doing in those parts, when Phil told them he was camping there for a short time, preparatory to a fishing expedition. ...

— The Ranger Boys and the Border Smugglers • Claude A. Labelle

... their shoulders at this. Nat had the money, and could act that way if it pleased him, they said. But, nevertheless, he lost favor with a great many of his former friends, for the reason that the whole fishing expedition had been a concerted movement to save the people and credit of the island, and not an exploitation of ...

— The Harbor of Doubt • Frank Williams

... swiftest of the cruisers had departed, Loketh on board to communicate with Tino-rau in the water. Since the male dolphin was the best equipped to provide a fox for salkar hounds, he was the bait for this weird fishing expedition. ...

— Key Out of Time • Andre Alice Norton

... fishing expedition to the quarries, he devoted a morning to the lower waters of the Meavy River; at the end of that day, not far short of midnight, when glasses were empty and pipes knocked out, half a dozen men, just about to retire, heard a sudden ...

— The Red Redmaynes • Eden Phillpotts

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