fish for
Try to obtain something through artifice or indirectly. For example, He was always fishing for compliments, or, as William Makepeace Thackeray put it in Vanity Fair (1848): “The first woman who fishes for him, hooks him.” [Mid-1500s]
Search for something, as in I've fished for it in all the drawers. [First half of 1700s]
Words nearby fish for
fish duck,
fish eagle,
fish farm,
fish flake,
fish flour,
fish for,
fish fork,
fish fry,
fish geranium,
fish hatchery,
fish hawk