Definition
Describes a person who feels uncomfortable or out of place because they are in an unfamiliar situation or among people who are very different from them.
At that new school, he felt like a fish out of water because the students there were so different from his background.
When I was invited to that tech seminar, I felt like a fish out of water since I knew almost nothing about technology.
The artist felt like a fish out of water at the dinner party filled with lawyers.