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Fans often press him for the scoop on Trout, he said, with some version of this line: “You guys share the same fishy last name, and he’s Mr. Angel just like you.”

“I cannot say for sure, but something sure smells fishy,” Larson wrote in the email.

It’s the source of the smell of the sea, that sort of fishy, sort of eggy aroma that evokes deeply nostalgic reactions in, well, almost everyone.

From Salon

After numerous requests for payment, Adam pulled the website when his team were presented with a "fishy" looking document as proof of incoming funding.

From BBC

Naturally they are good-looking, because this is television, and fit, because you need to be to do this; most have professional expertise in fishy, watery or wild things.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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