queer fish

British  

noun

1. informal  an eccentric or odd person

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Example Sentences

Folman's film is a queer fish indeed; the director's equivalent of that difficult second album.

From The Guardian

Bait′-fish, such fish as are used for bait, fish that may be caught with bait; Bott′om-fish, those that feed on the bottom, as halibut, &c.—Fish for, to seek to gain by cunning or indirect means; Fisherman's luck, getting wet and catching no fish; Fisherman's ring, a signet-ring with the device of St Peter fishing, used in signing papal briefs.—A queer fish, a person of odd habits; Be neither fish nor flesh, or Neither fish, flesh, nor fowl, to be neither one thing nor another, in principle, &c.;

From Project Gutenberg

Besides, Sailor was such a queer fish that there seemed something in his nature which almost craved for a licking from the finest chap he had ever known.

From Project Gutenberg

But these queer fish seem to have just been getting ready to land; for, by being lizards, they after a while managed it.

From Project Gutenberg

Indeed, I ought really to apologize to you for asking such a queer fish to your house.”

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