fish out of water

Etymology

 * Earliest recorded use: "Fishes out of the Water" (1613, Samuel Purchas, Pilgrimage).
 * Earliest use of metaphor by Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales: Prologue (1483) as "fissh that is waterlees".

Compare also the antonymous 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  A person in unfamiliar and often uncomfortable surroundings.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Catalan: peix fora d'aigua
 * Finnish: kuin kala kuivalla maalla
 * German: wie ein Fisch auf dem Trockenen, but less common, more usually sich fremd fühlen, sich nicht zu Hause fühlen
 * Italian: pesce fuor d'acqua
 * Japanese: 陸に上がった河童
 * Malay: seperti rusa masuk kampung, bagai kerbau terkejut oleh gong, tak pernah masuk gelanggang bergung
 * Maltese: ħuta barra mill-ilma
 * Portuguese: como peixe fora d'água
 * Spanish: como pez fuera del agua