"fish out of water" meaning in Englisch

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  "etymology_text": "Eine sehr alte Metapher, schon zu Chaucers Zeit gebräuchlich.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "the fish out of water",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "the fish out of water",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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      "form": "the fishes out of water",
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        "plural"
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  "lang_code": "en",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "Samuel Purchas, Purchas His Pilgrimage: or Relations of the World and the Religions observed in all Ages and Places discovered, from the Creation unto this Present (1613)",
          "text": "„The Arabians out of the desarts are as Fishes out of the Water.“"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "ein Fisch auf dem Trockenen; jemand (oder etwas), der/das nicht in seinem Element ist"
      ],
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      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense_index": "1",
      "word": "sich wie ein Fisch auf dem Trockenen fühlen"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense_index": "1",
      "word": "nicht in seinem Element sein"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Französisch",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "sense_index": "1",
      "word": "se sentir complètement dépaysé"
    }
  ],
  "word": "fish out of water"
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  "etymology_text": "Eine sehr alte Metapher, schon zu Chaucers Zeit gebräuchlich.",
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      "form": "the fish out of water",
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    {
      "form": "the fish out of water",
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        "plural"
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      "form": "the fishes out of water",
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          "text": "„The Arabians out of the desarts are as Fishes out of the Water.“"
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      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense_index": "1",
      "word": "sich wie ein Fisch auf dem Trockenen fühlen"
    },
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  "word": "fish out of water"
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