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[ferret out]  {literary} or [smell out] or [sniff out]  {v.}

To hunt or drive from hiding; to bring out into the open; search for and find.

John ferreted out the answer to the question in the library.

* /Jane smelled out the boys' secret hiding  […]

[few and far between]  {adj. phr.}

Not many; few and scattered; not often met or found; rare. — Used in the predicate.

People who will work as hard as Thomas A. Edison are few and far between.

* /Places where you can get water are few and far  […]

[fickle finger of fate]

See: [ACT OF GOD].

[fiddle]

See: [PLAY SECOND FIDDLE].

[fiddle around]

See: [FOOL AROUND] (3).

[fiddler]

See: [PAY THE PIPER] or [PAY THE FIDDLER].

[fiddle with]  {v. phr.}

To carelessly play with something.

[field]

See:

[CENTER FIELD],

[LEFT FIELD],

[OUT IN LEFT FIELD],

[PLAY THE FIELD],

[RIGHT FIELD].

[field goal]  {n.}

1. A score in football made by kicking the ball over the bar between the goal posts.

The Giants were not able to make a touchdown but they kicked two field goals.

Compare: [EXTRA POINT].

2. A score in basketball made by a  […]