It's a phrase used to describe something that's useless in the circumstances.
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Bicycle Thieves was created on 1948-11-24.
You and Your Bicycle - 1960 was released on: USA: 1948
Bicycle Girl - 1897 was released on: USA: May 1897
Columbia Bicycle Factory - 1897 was released on: USA: March 1897
Fish Without a Bicycle - 2003 is rated/received certificates of: USA:R
It means that the thing which is being referred to is totally unnecessary, just like a bicycle is not needed by a fish.
The cast of Fish Without a Bicycle - 2010 includes: Nick Court as Jasper Daniel Curshen as Zac Blank Juliet Riddell
The cast of A Fish Needs a Bicycle - 2009 includes: Becca Battoe as Ashley Amanda Bernero as Caitlin Hiwa Bourne as Darlene Donnell Turner as Eric Nic Wegener as Charlie
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For the same reason that a fish needs a bicycle. Only the company that hires him(her) needs a manager.
Fish Without a Bicycle - 2003 was released on: USA: 11 October 2003 (New Hampshire Film Expo) USA: 22 October 2004 (New York City, New York) USA: 29 October 2004 (Los Angeles, California)
Most bicycle owners maintain their own bicycle. But, a bicycle shop may be willing to maintain a bicycle, if you ask.
Attributed to Gloria Steinem...however she says although she loves the quote it was not her that said it, it is a pun on another saying by a philosopher who said "Man without God is like a fish without a bicycle" and was taken my an MP in Australia and re invented into the saying above will get back with the name of the female member of Parliament when I find out.
Robin Krause has written: 'Ireland by bike' -- subject(s): Guidebooks, Bicycle touring 'The fish cookbook journal and tales'
The bicycle squeaked. I've had a brand new bicycle for my birthday. I go to school on my bicycle.
The noun 'bicycle' functions as the subject of a sentence or clause, and as the object of a verb or preposition: The red bicycle was very cool. (subject of the sentence) I bought a basket for my bicycle. (object of the preposition 'for') The noun 'bicycle' used as adjective, called an attributive noun: There is a bicycle lane on the road where I live. The word 'bicycle' is also a verb: We often bicycle to the library.