odd duck
Noun
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Noun
odd duck (plural odd ducks)
- (idiomatic) An unusual person, especially an individual with an idiosyncratic personality or peculiar behavioral characteristics.
- 1936 Dec. 11, Bill Lush, "[http://news.google.ca/newspapers?id=tMUnAAAAIBAJ&sjid=fGkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4342,4917703&dq=odd-duck&hl=en Kelley Reveals Technique of Successful Pass Play]," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, p. 27 (retrieved 28 July 2010):
- This lad Kelley is an odd duck in many ways. . . . Unlike most college youngsters, he has no hobbies.
- 1971 June 18, "[http://news.google.ca/newspapers?id=UyweAAAAIBAJ&sjid=B78EAAAAIBAJ&pg=7228,3740725&dq=odd-duck&hl=en The Job Market: A New Start—Mature Women Who Work]," The Dispatch (North Carolina), p. 6 (retrieved 28 July 2010):
- If you are a married woman over 45 and are thinking of taking a plunge into the job market bear in mind that you won't be an odd duck in the employment pool.
- 2006 Dec. 21, "[http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1572515,00.html Sentiment—Not Sentimentality]" (film review of Venus), Time (retrieved 28 July 2010):
- Is [Peter] O'Toole—skinny, tottering, eccentric in everything from costume to line-readings—wonderful in this role? Indeed he is. Always more of an odd duck than a leading man, age (he's 74) has given him license to play his essential weirdness.
- 1936 Dec. 11, Bill Lush, "[http://news.google.ca/newspapers?id=tMUnAAAAIBAJ&sjid=fGkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4342,4917703&dq=odd-duck&hl=en Kelley Reveals Technique of Successful Pass Play]," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, p. 27 (retrieved 28 July 2010):
- odd fish, strange bird, weirdo; see also Thesaurus:strange person
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