What have we here? a man or a fish? dead or alive? A fish: he smells like a fish; a very ancient and fishlike smell; a kind of not of the newest poor-John. A strange fish!
You can be the dead fish. I'll be the old stick
In ten years [i.e., 1980] all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish.
The Japanese have hit the shores like dead fish. They're just like dead fish washing up on the shores.
We know the only fish that goes with the flow is a dead fish.
People say 'go with the flow' but do you know what goes with the flow? Dead fish.
Only dead fish go with the flow.