wet fish

== English == === Noun === wet fish (uncountable) Fresh fish intended to be cooked. 2007, Virginia Ironside, review of You Cannot Live as I Have Lived and Not End Up Like This: The Thoroughly Disgraceful Life and Times of Willie Donaldson by Terence Blacker, Literary Review, April 2007, p. 39, Posing as [Henry] Root, a wildly right-wing wet-fish merchant, Donaldson wrote to a variety of political figures and celebrities […] ==== Usage notes ==== Used especially in shops to distinguish it from fried fish, dried fish or salt fish. ==== Translations ====