fish one's wish

English

Verb

fish one's wish (third-person singular simple present fishes one's wish, present participle fishing one's wish, simple past and past participle fished one's wish)

1. To get what one desires; to get one's wish.
   • 2000 January 1, William W. Demastes, The Best American Short Plays 2010-2011, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN:

     ELI The sound of your voice...
     CHASTITY Come here.
     ELI I used to pray that I could hear her voice again.
     CHASTITY Well Eli. You finally fished your wish.
     [They kiss. They stumble to the wall. She begins to undo his pants. He stops her.]  […]

   • 2014 January 20, Bonnie L. DiMichele, in Grandma's Shoes, BalboaPress, →ISBN, page 42:

     He wished not to have the responsibilities of a family, and once he "fished his wish," it appears that his family may have been the only thing he did want. I wonder what his last few moments were like in his car. What flashed before his eyes? […]

   • 2022 January 25, W.L. Liberman, Dead Fish Jumping On The Road, Next Chapter:

     "Why don't you make a wish?" she said.
     I nodded. "Okay."
     [...] Beverly stood with her back to me by the shore some fifteen yards off, her clothes in a crumpled heap by her feet. Her skin was caramel coloured from top to bottom.
     "Guess what?" she called back.
     "What?"
     "You just fished your wish."
     And then with all the supple grace of a gymnast, she bent her knees spreading rounded buttocks slightly as a pair of sinewy thighs tensed, swung her arms upward and sailed in a perfect arc up and out slicing the water with only the slightest rip.

   • 2022 May 12, Zach Star, When your religious friend ends up in Hell with you‎^[1]:

     But hey, remember all those times you were like 'Zach, I just pray we'll be together in the afterlife.' My friend, you fished your wish.