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fish in troubled waters

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Definition

to try to win an advantage from a difficult situation or from someone else's problemsAdvantage and disadvantage
(Definition of fish in troubled waters from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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