queer fish

British  

noun

1. informal an eccentric or odd person

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queer fish

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

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

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

“Well, I am sure,” thought Smallbones, “they’ll think they have caught a queer fish anyhow;” and he waited very patiently for the fisherman to come up.

From Snarley-yow or The Dog Fiend by Frederick Marryat

There were some queer fish caught, including quite a number of sculpins, "a wolfer eel,"—so Captain Briskett called him,—and a large catfish.

From Little By Little or, The Cruise of the Flyaway by Oliver Optic

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