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Meanings of odd fish in English
Catalan
tocat de l'ala Spanish
tipo raro Someone regarded as eccentric or crazy and standing out from a group.
Synonyms
Examples for "kook"
Examples for "kook"
1
He was a bit of a kook, but his theories proved themselves.
2
It's not hard to figure out why Susan is such a kook.
3
In the rear seat he saw the silhouette of the big kook.
4
All the others are in a permanent state of kook fever.
5
The Chairman Mao kook didn't flinch when I said the word.
1
He is an odd fellow, Fritz, and almost lives in the library.
2
Oh, David Gordon Green, you really are an odd fellow and no mistake.
3
An odd fellow, full of talent, and a musical genius.
4
An odd fellow rides below here, tarrying as if expectant.
5
You 're an odd fellow to have asked for it.'
1
He's a queer bird is Harold, said Mr. Bucket, eyeing me with great expression.
2
The Blue Jay is a queer bird, who can twist himself into all sorts of shapes.
3
One or two queer bird's nests fastened to small branches hung quite naturally here and there.
4
That was a queer bird; he had never seen a bird with a wing action like that.
5
Well, he's kind of a queer bird.
1
Frank was a queer duck, always poking around old papers after useless bits of knowledge.
2
A queer duck, if there ever was one.
3
He seems to be a queer duck.
4
Yes, she's a queer duck.
5
He's a queer duck.
1
Obviously, the major banks are the odd man out currently, he said.
2
An odd man out, wearing hunter's plaid, a townie among the preps.
3
The Gerrards are coming for bridge, and you'll be odd man out.
4
But if three is a crowd, Fonseka is the odd man out.
5
She was quietly telling him that he was the odd man out.
Usage of odd fish in English
1
Christopher Robin, the film, is a bit of an odd fish.
2
Lespel has him to lunch to-day;-callshim a gentleman-tradesman; odd fish!
3
An odd fish, indeed, was this same Julien Tanguy, little father to painters.
4
After ten Mississippis, Mortimer lowered his flashlight and smiled at these two odd fish.
5
Probably they're only trying to see what sort of an odd fish we are.
6
That odd fish, Captain Magnus, now-hewas quite Miss Browne's own find, I assure you.
7
An odd fish truly, I thought to myself.
8
To be brief, the odd fish did not come my way, and there's an end on't.
9
He certainly is an odd fish, and I like him even if I do not understand him.
10
The odd fish that came to us!
11
What an odd fish Peter had become; the word, "man, man," sounded meaningless to Pelle's ears.
12
You're an odd fish, Merwyn.
13
An odd fish, this Jonathan!
14
Ransom explained to them that in the ocean and bay near San Francisco there were odd fish and strange animals too.
15
You know, Poll, he's such an odd fish; if he himself doesn't offer to uncork, somehow one can't just pump him.
16
I've only to get an odd fish of a girl to help, and I'll have something like a menagerie in the house.
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