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queer fish

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noun

  1. informal an eccentric or odd person

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Ye're a queer fish no to hae fins.

From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander

Jim’s a queer fish and I guess it will be best to get to him as quickly as possible.

From The Spoilers of the Valley by Watson, Robert

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