"Kettle of fish" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I, giving him a significant touch on the elbow. 'Didn't expect to see you looking so bright, General—rather a bad kettle of fish that you ...
— The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth • Timothy Templeton
... might say, was a pretty kettle of fish for Aunt Barbree. Here not only was a loving husband killed, and a sister-in-law, but at one stroke two out of the three healthy lives on which the whole lease of Merry-Garden depended. She mourned William John for his own sake, because, as husbands go, she had reason to regret him; ...
— Merry-Garden and Other Stories • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... incident was closed, and I did greatly compliment myself upon the sagacity and coolness of head with which I extricated myself from my pretty kettle of fish. For to have denounced myself as the real alarmist would have rendered the affair more, rather than less, discreditable to my feminine companion, and I should have been arraigned before the solemn bar of a police-court magistrate, who might even have made ...
— Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. • F. Anstey
... by Suzanne at six o'clock this morning," the old fellow went on. "And the duke—ah, take care how you come near him, sir! Oh, it's a kettle of fish! For as I came I met that coxcomb Lafleur riding back with a message from the duke's guests that they would not come to-day! So the duchess is gone, and the ladies are not come; and the duke—he has nothing ...
— The Indiscretion of the Duchess • Anthony Hope
... kettle of fish!" grunted the disgusted Jud. "We seem to take to sandbars and mud flats today to ...
— The Banner Boy Scouts Afloat • George A. Warren |
