Sentences with phrase «like fish out of water»

Needless to say our first foray into homeownership (no snow removal in the HOA fees) had us looking like fish out of water.

Great point Eric - they make it sound so easy then after closing their deals leave the students floundering like fish out of water.

Stephanie Halverson was like a fish out of water when she joined Macdonald Realty in Surrey, a city in the Canadian province of British Columbia, two years ago.

As I began the process of making connections with the parents and families of my clients, I felt like a fish out of water.

If you have to figure them all out on your own, you will find yourself working 80 hour weeks, developing bad eating habits, and generally feel like a fish out of water.

I must have looked like a fish out of water flopping around on the ground.

Walking around the apartment you first encounter a fish that has escaped its tank and it's flopping around, well, like a fish out of water (get it)!

I prefer small gatherings or one - on - one chats with people, so when you throw me into a big social setting I tend to feel like a fish out of water.

Feel like a fish out of water when looking for the perfect rental for you Maui Vacation?

Shelter workers and management believed that cats who were not social with people were like fish out of water, and that they were better off dead than «abandoned» outdoors.

though I suspect I'd feel like a fish out of water trying to figure out whether a commodity is fairly priced or not!

I might be deadly with a calculator but give me a hammer and I'm like a fish out of water.

Do I feel like a fish out of water?

I felt like a fish out of water since it had been so long since I'd written anything, and I had never submitted anything.

A smartphone without Wi - Fi, surely that's like a fish out of water these days, but it has been the case for Research In Motion with the company's BlackBerry handhelds until the launch of its Wi - Fi enabled 8820.

I find your post very timely and helpful, as having just moved to Phoenix, I'm feeling like a fish out of water.

While we authors are no stranger to self - publishing or writing, when it comes to art, particularly graphic novels, we can feel a little bit like a fish out of water.

A sassy city girl and hip textile designer, she's used to the hustle and bustle of Manhattan, so she feels very much like a fish out of water when she moves to tiny Waterfield on the craggy coast of Maine to renovate houses with her new boyfriend, hunky handyman Derek Ellis.

The last time we saw the Bentley Bentayga, it was blatting round the Nurburgring looking a bit like a fish out of water.

The potential customer looked like a fish out of water.

I was like a fish out of water — quite uncomfortable.

Put him in a vanilla role like Will Caster and Depp seems like a fish out of water.

The problem with Bad Santa is that it uses vulgarity as a crutch to inject humor where there really isn't any, gasping for precious air like a fish out of water, needing something to keep its feeble self alive, and only doing so by spewing out more of the same.

Seth MacFarlane plays the not - so - manly Albert, who seems like a fish out of water in the old west.

Because the story deals with a pandemic, you're never sure when one of these attractive people will start foaming at the mouth and flapping around like a fish out of water.

If you are like a fish out of water, you feel awkward because you are in an unfamiliar situation or because the people you are with are very different from you.

Marie was like a fish out of water when she assumed a manger position at the company where she had worked as a clerk for so long.

I feel like a fish out of water.

Now that you are older, you don't want to go to bars and clubs because you would feel like a fish out of water.

The Divorce To Dating eBook gives you practical advice and tips on being confident, how to navigate today's modern dating world and what the latest «rules» are so you don't feel like a fish out of water.

These are my current favorite and I've felt a bit like a fish out of water without this «go to» option on a weekly basis.

Temperatures don't drop too low in Texas too often, but when they do drop, I am like a fish out of water when it comes to my wardrobe.

I would wake up in the middle of the night to find my heart flopping about in my chest like a fish out of water.

Many times I have trained people who swore they worked like animals in the gym and had them on the floor gasping like fish out of water, unable to continue with any additional work after one limit set of squats.

Like a fish out of water, change and uncertainty can feel life threatening.

La Jolla, CA — Cells cultured in the lab are like a fish out of water.

The next time you feel like a fish out of water, think of the Pacific leaping blenny.

For me, collaborations will be essential, because right now I feel like a fish out of water — a physicist working with a bunch of biologists (Author's note: Scientific disciplines have been altered to protect the guilty)-- so it's hard to find people close to my new scientific home to exchange ideas with.

Most robotic fish are like fish out of water: They're surprisingly poor swimmers, and they often scare away any other creatures they come in contact with.

But it was labor: AFL - CIO, Working America, Change to Win, SEIU, UFT, NEA, UFCW, even the firefighters, who did seem a little bit like fish out of water *.

They want more manpower in the form of more PAPD officers, not Troopers who are «like fish out of water» when they are downstate.

Motherhood made me feel like a fish out of water.

That is because the young Welshman was struggling to establish himself in the Arsenal side and looked like a fish out of water on the left wing.

I watched bayern very dort mundane earlier and could imagine him slotting in superbly, he looks like a fish out of water at arsenal wondering what the fook he did coming.

I always rated this guy but even I underestimated him, I didn't think he was the «leader» of the CB but seeing Per flop about like a fish out of water at times with Monreal next to him... Maybe it is Kos that does more of the organising?

You see that it's not working by halftime, while Giroud and Ramsey look like fish out of the water.

Exactly, any world - class winger / attacker should be able to slot in as a temporary striker without looking like fish out of water.

Lets just go back to back four that way we can at least count on Belerin on the right who at the moment looks like a fish out of water and Monreal isn't so bad when we play back four, and if we don, t sign anyone put Sead Kolasinac as a DM and make him stay there and wrestle if he has to to stop anyone going past through the middle

some of our dead wood become dead wood because we had to concentrate on feeding Sanchez with all the ball all the time if we didn't he would throw a temper tantrum, if you watched the United game last night he dose not have that superiority at United yet and he looked like a fish out of water, he was tracking back to win the ball so he can get a touch

Equally, if Coquelin steps it up a gear and we look solid whilst Morgan continues the recent trend of Soton players looking like fish out of water when they leave St Marys then I am sure you and others will be due some good - natured stick.