The answers to the clues below will have something in common.

1. What many alcoholics do
2. Get to work or stand aside
3. Ill-at-ease feeling 
4. Not exactly one thing or the other
5. Open to public view
6. Swing uncontrollably from side to side
7. Rude term for a loud, scolding woman
8. Saying things about yourself that invite praise
9. Whopper

Answers:

1. Drink like a fish
2. Fish or cut bait
3. Feeling like a fish out of water
4. Neither fish nor fowl
5. In a fishbowl
6. Fishtail
7. Fishwife
8. Fish for compliments 
9. Fish story