Fishing Expedition - Law Dictionary Search Results
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fishing expedition 1 : an inquiry (as by the use of discovery) that is unnecessarily extensive or unrelated to the lawsuit 2 : an investigation that does not stick to a stated objective but hopes to uncover incriminating or newsworthy evidence ...
fishing expedition
An investigation searching for evidence of wrongdoing with no credible evidence of such wrongdoing available at the outset of the investigation and often without specifying in advance the wrongdoing to be proven...
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