Don't call him today because he has gone fishing.
gone fishing
idiomUnavailable, having taken time off for recreation.
The office is empty today because the entire team has gone fishing for the long weekend.
After years of relentless professional pressure, he finally decided he had gone fishing, leaving his responsibilities behind for a much-needed period of solitude.
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boldly go where no man has gone before
To break new ground.
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bottom fishing
Buying, or seeking opportunities to buy, investment securities or other valuable properties at a time when markets are depressed and prices are low.
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fishing expedition
A search for information, especially incriminating information, that is conducted without specific direction or goal, in the hope that something may turn up.
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gone case
Someone or something that is deemed irredeemable, hopeless and beyond help; a doomed person or thing.
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gone north about
Dead, of sailor or seaman whose cause of death was anything except by drowning.
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gone with the wind
dead