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fishing expedition
noun
a litigation tactic of requesting a broad range of probably irrelevant information in the hope of discovering something helpful US, 1874- Lawyers in major fraud cases were warned today by an old Bailey judge not to go on “fishing expeditions” which were forbidden by law and an abuse of the court process. — Press Association Limited, 14 December 1993
- I was wondering why so many judges accuse–there is no other word–why they accuse lawyers of going on fishing expeditions. — The Lawyers Weekly, 8 July 1994
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