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Odd fish   /ɑd fɪʃ/   Listen
Odd fish

noun
1.
Someone regarded as eccentric or crazy and standing out from a group.  Synonyms: kook, odd fellow, odd man out, queer bird, queer duck.






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"Odd fish" Quotes from Famous Books



... John Cheever's self-imposed tasks was the care of cranks. Though somewhat peculiar himself he had no use for odd fish—queer folk and the like—and kept a sharp look-out for erratic strangers. Of these there was a constant succession coming to the Farm; reformers of everything under the sun; fanatics demanding the instant adoption of—their nebulous theories; mental aliens not quite ...
— My Friends at Brook Farm • John Van Der Zee Sears

... at any rate nothing outward about him that aroused the passion of envy. A few peculiarly observant men were immediately impressed with his distinction, but there is no doubt that to the ordinary stranger he appeared as a very odd fish. "No portraits that I have ever seen," writes one, "do justice to the awkwardness and ungainliness of his figure." Its movements when he began to speak rather added to its ungainliness, and, though to a trained actor his elocution seemed perfect, his voice when he first opened ...
— Abraham Lincoln • Lord Charnwood

... head and muttered, "Queer tribe, these Mumpsons! I've only to get an odd fish of a girl to help, and I'll have something like a menagerie in the house." He carried his pails of foaming milk to the dairy, and then entered ...
— He Fell in Love with His Wife • Edward P. Roe

... that she and Comte were odd fish to be at home together in that placid backwater of the Latin Quarter. Next door to the old-fashioned house in which she rented three rooms was a cabaret, a mere wreck of a wineshop, apparently cast there by the torrent of the Boule Mich, which ...
— A Son of the Immortals • Louis Tracy



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