"queer fish" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1974 April 21, Vincent Canby, “Movie Review: The Conversation”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-02-24:",
          "text": "Harry is a queer fish indeed. He is suspicious of everybody and everything.",
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        "An odd or eccentric person."
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        "(dated, chiefly British) An odd or eccentric person."
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          "word": "odd fish"
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          "word": "strange fish"
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          "text": "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.",
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        "(dated, chiefly British) An odd or eccentric person."
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