to pull someone or something out of the water
to pull something out of a bag or other container
A tourist jumped into the canal to fish the boy out.
Exercising her willpower to the utmost, she didn't fish out the note until she returned to her bedchamber in the small hours of the morning.
I didn't know she was going to fish out that bloody file, did I?
She lifted the dead fish out on a spade and hurled it back onto the beach with a shudder.
She reached into her bag and fished out a pen.
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There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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