> > Jimmy, you're not supposed to shoot fish in a barrel.
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> > S "get out of the barrel before you shoot them" am
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> No, no, no. You don't *shoot* the fish, you put them through some elaborate but extremely faulty death trap, involving a seemingly inescapeable escape rout.

What exactly does this phrase mean, anyway? I know that if a person "CAN'T shoot fish in a barrel," it means he can't do something even a stupid person would be able to do. So what does "DON'T shoot fish in a barrel" mean? "Don't be stupid"? But I don't think that captures the nuance properly.

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> Jimmy O"Or you just nuke em and jump out of the way as the nuke falls"f York

Telephoning the fish with thermonuclears.

Wolf "Maybe there are some barracuda in that barrel" spirit