Fish-Explaining
(
Verb)
1.
Speaking quickly and without articulation and with great enthusiasm.
2.
Speaking to someone in a language they do not understand- with great enthusiasm.
3.
Enthusiastically speaking without truly communicating
anything, oftentimes in reference to a political speech.
1.
After Mitt Romney’s televised speech I couldn’
t help but feel that the whole thing had been little more than Fish-Explaining. There had been a lot of enthusiastic
buzz-
words but little had been actually communicated.
2.
My mother-in-law forgot for the moment that I did not speak any Turkish. After she finished excitedly saying whatever it was she was saying I could only ask her what all her fish-explaining had been about.
3.
The
baby was incapable of speaking English but that didn’
t stop him from enthusiastically telling anyone who would listen about the fish he was pointing at when visiting the New England Aquarium. I smiled at his gibbering antics- this was true fish-explaining.