queer fish

British  

noun

1. informal an eccentric or odd person

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Example Sentences

That would be true if only because any designer who deliberately made such a queer fish would have been more of a practical joker than anything else.

From Time Magazine Archive

Albert C. Barnes is the sort of person who gets himself called, variously, "crazy nut," "queer fish," "genius."

From Time Magazine Archive

It was from F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Rich Boy: "We are all queer fish, queerer behind our faces and voices than we want anyone to know or that we know ourselves."

From Time Magazine Archive

Otherwise, all three, Marseillais and Corsicans, were good, simple, straight-forward folk, and were full of consideration for their visitor, although I must have seemed a very queer fish to them….

From Letters from my Windmill by Daudet, Alphonse

After dining I strolled along the beach, looking at some queer fish not found north of the Mediterranean, their colors vying in brilliancy with the plumage of tropical birds.

From Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude by Bidwell, Austin