fishing expedition

Around age 7, his father was lost at sea on a fishing expedition.

She said, "Is this a fishing expedition or did you want something in particular?"

What they had wanted was to have gone on a fishing expedition.

It was a fishing expedition, with not much prior thinking.

"And that it can be used for a fishing expedition."

The major's field trip might turn out to be a waste of time, some private fishing expedition.

They're on a fishing expedition and not looking for trouble.

He called the Government's effort a "fishing expedition" that would not hold up in court.

He decided that the Russians were on some sort of fishing expedition.

It was their third fishing expedition of the long weekend.