"That sounds better than telling them I ate some bad fish."

While the bad fish continue to swim around the lake, just as they always did, because no fisherman wants them.

"I ate bad fish at the hotel last night", he told onlookers.

In other words the bad fish was covered up with the sauce!

See, it's not a bad fish to eat actually, mackerel.

She could smell them: water, bad fish, and old sweat.

"If he gives me bad fish he'd be hearing from me next day, so what's the point?"

Now they keep to their side of the mountain, which is well for them, as we can smell out a Yao like a bad fish.

Outside the dining room, the Palace itself stank: bad fish, or something much like it.

It would be like telling a shark he was a bad fish and to stop eating people.