odd fish BrE old-fashioned
queer fish BrE old-fashioned

But the major struck him as an odd fish, rather.

They'll put you in mind of a rather odd fishing trip.

Probably they're only trying to see what sort of an odd fish we are."

They were clear now, with only the odd fishing boat to bar their way.

I would be inclined to remove the odd fish, though.

By the customs of my folk, I have always been an odd fish.

It seemed as though this odd fish was swimming quite well in the capitalist sea.

There'll be the odd fishing boat or yacht, so keep a sharp eye out.

Several odd fish can be found throughout the store, which also react to the flashlights.

"We have some relatives that are rather odd fishes, as well," Philip said.

"You're an odd fish, Caesar, to save your passions for work."

There's some food worth concentrating on at Local, a newcomer in the theater district and a bit of an odd fish.

The men were going by dugout to fish odd fishes within the corals.

An odd fish truly, I thought to myself.

A bit of an odd fish, but that's to be expected if he's a magicker.

He had been an odd fish from the start: all profile, weak-willed, possibly homosexual.

Leisure: Some members who belong to this section go out to sea mainly to enjoy the day and find an odd fish.

They'd not be the Odd Fish without it.

The calf, curious about the odd fish in their midst, abruptly dove toward the sub.

I was quite successful on the street; I attracted the odd fish out looking for a bit of kink.

Odd fish dart about within a river that tumbles at a forty-five-degree tilt.

If you stood and watched them all day, you'd be certain to keep spotting the odd fish you hadn't noticed before.

"You know," he said when he was able, "you really are an odd fish, Caesar!"

"Carousal" is an odd fish, divided into two halves, part movement and part theatrical image.

'He's an odd fish,' said the Carrier, looking straight along the road before them. '

They certainly had to make do with some queer fish in the Service nowadays.

I impress him in my anger as a queer fish.

Gregory is a queer fish, but a very good fellow."

He was a queer fish, but the town gave him a rough ride when they got the chance.'

You Queer Fish make much of that 'good side' business.

Collectors are queer fish, you know, liable to banditry without any qualms.

"The Queer Fish have been bloody and warlike in their times.

The Queer Fish say that we are unclean spirits.

But I can tell you he's a queer fish and he's got no sense of humour.'

Picture of a queer fish and pessimistic words concerning the destruction of the universe.

All three of them were Queer Fish.

He wondered, as he had wondered on the day of the funeral, about that queer fish, Gregory.

He's a queer fish.

But that was queer fishing !

When the party arrived they found the officer in charge waiting in the doorway, apparently curious to see these queer fish his men had hooked.

"Our surviving enemies are slight ones, the plague-carrying Queer Fish and others of their bias.

For the oyster, you see, is what you might call a real queer fish - now a he, now a she, as quite takes its fancy.

Scientists were queer fish.

Boys are queer fish.

But many boys, particularly those of the Queer Fish species, know it consciously when it comes, and they negotiate with it.

Queer fish," I said rather snappily.

"Problem of the Queer Fish."

Queer fish, that chap Lamus !

Queer fish, Laidlaw.

"A queer fish, mama.