Meaning of strange bird | Babel Free

Definitions

An unusual person, especially one with an idiosyncratic personality or peculiar behavioral characteristics.

idiomatic, informal

Equivalents

Examples

“Jena Janovy is a strange bird—a college basketball player who is a) female and b) short (5 feet 3 inches) and, perhaps oddest of all, lets neither of those things dampen her rabid enthusiasm for the game.”

“I never saw him, but Jackie Langley told me Kerouac was a strange bird, stayed drunk, talked crazy, brooded.”

“"You're a strange bird, Meehan," Leroy told him. "When you find out whose house you're in, call me back."”

“In this land, too, there dwelled a young man who was a fowler, but a bit of a strange bird he was, for he only captured his birds, preferring not to slaughter them.”

CEFR level