fishing expedition

What they had wanted was to have gone on a fishing expedition.

They're on a fishing expedition and not looking for trouble.

Around age 7, his father was lost at sea on a fishing expedition.

It was their third fishing expedition of the long weekend.

She said, "Is this a fishing expedition or did you want something in particular?"

"And that it can be used for a fishing expedition."

He called the Government's effort a "fishing expedition" that would not hold up in court.

It was a fishing expedition, with not much prior thinking.

This looks more like a lawyer fishing expedition to me.

The major's field trip might turn out to be a waste of time, some private fishing expedition.

That still doesn't make it a vehicle for a fishing expedition.

Said they wouldn't cooperate if it was just a fishing expedition.

He decided that the Russians were on some sort of fishing expedition.

But they said that, in general, the list constituted little more than a fishing expedition by the defense.

I've interviewed people sometimes on what I call fishing expeditions.

Fishing expeditions are also sent to support the claim of economic activity.

This means, he claims, that the government can apparently go on a fishing expedition.

This whole fishing expedition wasn't turning out they way he'd imagined.

I guess they decided the fishing expedition was a flop.

By then he had joined us for a restaurant lunch and a fishing expedition.

On a fishing expedition they take together, what should bob up from the depths of the lake but a woman's dead body.

If it were a fishing expedition, I don't think we would be receptive.

But they're not going to expose themselves, even to you, for a broad fishing expedition.

"It sounds to me a little like a fishing expedition.

Every diving or fishing expedition is arranged just for you.