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Needed, appropriate, essential, or hoped-for; also has come to mean perfect, well, or absolutely right. [n] [73] rock the boat: To do or say something that will upset people or cause problems: shoot the breeze: To chat idly or casually, without any serious topic of conversation [74] shooting fish in a barrel: Frivolously performing a simple ...
Fish derive many benefits from shoaling behaviour including defence against predators through better predator detection and by diluting the chance of capture, enhanced foraging success, and higher success in finding a mate. It is also likely that fish benefit from shoal membership through increased hydrodynamic efficiency.
The phrase over a barrel, meaning to be in a dilemma or "a weak or difficult position", may refer to the first aid practice among sailors of placing a drowning victim's head over a barrel, and rolling his body over it, in an attempt to remove aspirated water from the person's lungs. [68]
The fish will then gradually slide up the float rope as the diver swims until it rests underneath the buoy. When shooting larger fish, the diver can let go of his gun and play the fish from the float line, giving the fish more room to tire and preventing it from tearing off the spear or dragging the spearfisher under the water. [9]
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This page is bad, no citations on anything. I changed the mythbusters line as it contradicts the probable history of the idiom. Historically, fish were not stored in a barrel full of water, they were stored in a barrel full of other fish. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.132.83.233 00:48, 4 June 2013 (UTC)