queer fish
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
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
Some queer fish there have to be in the world.
From The Song of Songs by Hermann Sudermann
They are queer fish," said Tiel in a reminiscent way, "but they generally do the thing pretty thoroughly, especially when one has a firm enough hold of them.
From The Spy in Black by J. Storer (Joseph Storer) Clouston
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