Read the passage.From the start, he felt like a fish out of water at the new school. The other students had been there for at least a year. They knew where all the classrooms were. They knew the routines the teachers liked them to follow. He, however, was learning everything for the first time.

The phrase “a fish out of water” means feeling uncomfortable or out of place in a new situation. The passage explains that the other students already knew the school, while he was learning everything for the first time. Therefore, the boy felt out of place at his new school.

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