queer fish

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Meaning: (dated,chieflyBritish)Anoddoreccentricperson.1897, Richard Marsh,The Beetle:He’s known amongst us as the Arab. I’ve had my eye on him ever since he came to the place. Aqueer fishhe is. I always have said that he’s up to some game or other.1919,W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 54”, inThe Moon and Sixpence,[New York, N.Y.]:Grosset & Dunlap Publishers[…],→OCLC:To these people, native and European, he was aqueer fish, but they were used toqueer fish, and they took him for granted; the world was full of odd persons, who did odd things; and perhaps they knew that a man is not what he wants to be, but what he must be.1974April 21,Vincent Canby, “Movie Review: The Conversation”, inNew York Times, retrieved24 February 2014:Harry is aqueer fishindeed. He is suspicious of everybody and everything.

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