queer fish
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
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
This explanation brought a laugh not only from the girls who crowded about the glass case, but from some observers who also stood watching the queer fish.
From The Woodcraft Girls in the City by Roy, Lillian Elizabeth
But these queer fish seem to have just been getting ready to land; for, by being lizards, they after a while managed it.
From The Adventures of a Grain of Dust by Hawksworth, Hallam
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