Meaning of queer fish | Babel Free

Definitions

An odd or eccentric person.

British, dated

Examples

“He’s known amongst us as the Arab. I’ve had my eye on him ever since he came to the place. A queer fish he is. I always have said that he’s up to some game or other.”

“To these people, native and European, he was a queer fish, but they were used to queer 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.”

“Harry is a queer fish indeed. He is suspicious of everybody and everything.”

CEFR level