Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

As a reader, when the writer gets sentimental, you drift, because there's something fishy going on there. You recognize a moment that's largely about the writer and the writer's own need to believe in something that might not in fact exist. As a reader, you think, 'Where did the story go? Where did the person I'm reading about go?

American Journalist

Nell Scovell

When blue-eyed Donald Trump married hazel-eyed Ivana Zelnickova, he probably figured his broad-shouldered DNA would dominate her girly alleles. But genetics played a cruel trick on Trump: Of the couple's three children, only the youngest, Eric, wound up with his father's fishy blue eyes.

Masaharu Morimoto

Right after I graduated high school, I joined a sushi restaurant to learn how to make Japanese food. And then spent seven years. Then that time - that's enough. Then sushi restaurant - butchering fish and they make your body smell like fishy.

Japanese Chef

Tomi Lahren

I think there are a lot of circumstances that surround the Clinton family that aren't explainable, and I will let people go on and research it for themselves. And if they think there is something fishy going on, leave it to them.

Tyler Perry

When I was a kid, I had asthma, so I would have to take cod liver oil all the time. So anything fishy that reminds me of that taste, I can't eat. I love Chilean sea bass because I don't taste it there. But salmon? No, no, no.

American Actor

Yotam Ottolenghi

Most fish require a short cooking time, but cephalopods are the exception to this fishy rule. As with some cuts of larger land beasts, the longer they're cooked, the more tender they get.

Israeli Chef

Claire Saffitz

If anything betrays my Ashkenazi Jewish heritage - besides the Casper-the-friendly-ghost-like skin tone - it's my love of fishy fish.

American Editor

Greg McHugh

I do have very high customer service standards - I'd send back sushi because it's too fishy.

Scottish Actor

Ira Glass

In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy.

Noel Coward

There's always something fishy about the French.

English Playwright

Use 'fishy' when you have an intuition that something isn't right, often without clear evidence.

Trust Your Gut

'Fishy' is often used in casual conversation rather than formal situations.

Informal Suspicion

Think of 'fishy' to describe scenarios like those in mystery novels, where motives are questionable.

Detective Work

Use 'fishy' to describe a smell that's not only strong and fish-like, but also mildly offensive.

Unpleasant Odor

Even if not related to actual fish, 'fishy' can describe any off-putting scent.

Negative Association

Use 'fishy' to express doubt about the freshness or quality of food, especially seafood.

Food Freshness

 photographer let's see what they have to say hey y'all it's dr. today too I swear I'm an observational astrophysicist and a lover of the night sky I'm so excited about what's gonna happen fall back to fishy I'm a night sky photographer working with National Geographic and the founder of the world

Watch the Total Solar...

 But when we flipped the whole image over, the most important parts of the face, the eyes and mouth, were now upside down, and you realized something fishy was up. You realized your brain had taken a short cut and missed something. But your brain wasn't really being lazy, it's just very busy.

How optical illusions...

 all great for mom and dad and the whole family who come to see the octopus except there are sharks in this tank as well sharks that are voracious predators and opportunistic feeders and that have been known to veer from their usual fishy diets to munch on an occasional

Octopus Kills Shark PIPE...

Shark vs Octopus PIPE...

 glossy had called me and said you want to go to an efficient i drop rate what I was doing I went right down the boat we got the boat rigged up brad is a fish maniac if it has a tail he has a hook he's just a fishy fishy guy very good

Enter the Fish Hawk PIPE...

 Usain Bolt couldn't have run from where she said she was to the other spot. Right? So we knew that wasn't true. So it still didn't mean that he didn't do it, but we knew something was maybe fishy about this witness.

How I help free innocent...

 describe that to you imagine the worst fishy cat food in the world but in the airing cupboard for three days and then spread liberally on a beach in Antarctica and you pretty much got it oh

Sleeping with Penguins PIPE...

 back giving them a clear idea of what fishy delights lie beneath the surface as mom looks for food her calf continues to mimic her every move another technique for the young wants to master

Dolphin Parenting PIPE...

 where the global super-rich turn fishy money into empty apartments and price lifelong residents of a city, young couples starting out, out of their own home.

A letter to all who have...

 has had enough he charges fishy adolescent further and further back

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