strange bird

Definitions

1. 1

   An unusual person, especially one with an idiosyncratic personality or peculiar…

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

   • 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."

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