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loose fish
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Definition:strange man
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In the meantime the young man was rather a loose fish, anyhow.
Ambrose Bierce. Can Such Things Be?
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"Let Brooke reform his rent-roll. He's a cursed old screw, and the buildings all over his estate are going to rack. I suppose this young fellow is some loose fish from London."
"His name is Ladislaw. He is said to be of foreign extraction."
George Eliot. Middlemarch
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