![]() No one around here really pronounces the “g” at the end, anyway. I live in the South, and when business owners around here put up this sign, they leave the “g” off of the end. It's sad, but I doubt I will ever get to just spontaneously “go fishing.” However, I know that I need the money that I would lose by being closed. I think it would be really nice to be able to close up shop for a day and head out to the lake. I live in the city, where everyone is always trying to make more money and get ahead, so taking time off to go fishing and letting everyone know about it is just unheard of here. I have never seen a “Gone Fishing” sign in my life. When there just didn't seem to be any solution to his problems, he checked out for awhile and went fishing, and he usually came back in a more peaceful frame of mind. My dad used to go fishing whenever he had so much on him that he just could not talk about it or think about it anymore. Fish are apparently scared away by voices. They always say that the quieter you are, the more likely you are to catch a fish. They sometimes go for hours without saying a word to each other. This is because I know how fishermen behave while out in their fishing boats. I think that this idiom is funny when it refers to someone who has mentally left the building. It is just so random, and it always gets us giggling. To me, when we use this phrase among our group, it is even funnier than when people out in the country who go fishing all the time use it. None of my friends have ever actually been fishing, but sometimes, they do stare blankly ahead and appear to be absentminded. I usually see these in houses that have country themed decoration, and the plaque almost always has a painted picture of a man fishing on it.Īugust 20, – This is one of my favorite idioms. I have seen them in little wooden plaques in people's houses though. September 3, - I've never seen a "Gone Fishing" sign on a business, that's for sure. Now if a small business owner closes up shop for the day, they're more likely to stay home playing on the Internet or something! I think it's funny the phrase originated from it's literally meaning: people closing up shop and spending the day fishing. Everyone knows what "gone fishing" means, even though it usually doesn't mean the person has actually gone fishing. ![]() September 3, - I've seen those signs used as decoration too! That just goes to show you how entrenched that phrase is in every day English. When the phrase "gone fishing" is used to mean someone has mentally checked out of the conversation, I think it's similar to the phrase "out to lunch." When you say someone is "out to lunch" it also means they've mentally checked out of the conversation, as if they've actually gone away to have lunch (or go fishing, whatever the case may be.) Going out to lunch is just temporary, but if you go fishing, usually you're gone for a couple of days! I personally like "gone fishing" a little bit better, because it really conveys how much the person isn't paying attention to whatever is going on. September 5, - Those two phrases are pretty similar, and I've definitely heard them used interchangeable. I need help with meaning of this idiom "The one who goes fishing, will hunt." How do I interpret that? Thanks I think that "gone fishing" has similar meaning to wool-gathering, or zoning out. ![]()
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