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Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. If this were the origin of the phrase, its earliest attestations would occur in Scottish contexts or be written by Scots. { bidder: 'criteo', params: { networkId: 7100, publisherSubId: 'cdo_topslot' }}, googletag.pubads().setTargeting("cdo_l", "en"); What does a queer fish expression mean? { bidder: 'onemobile', params: { dcn: '8a9690ab01717182962182bb50ce0007', pos: 'cdo_btmslot_mobile_flex' }}, The expression 'a kettle of fish' means a mess or a muddle. Learn more in the Cambridge English-Chinese traditional Dictionary. 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