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English-Albanian Dictionary of Idioms
He must needs to do it. neither fish, flesh nor good red herring/fresh meat; neither
fish nor fowl; neither fish, flesh, nor fowl as mish as peshk □ A man may consider
himself an atheist, an agnostic or a believer, and good luck to him. But to call ...
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The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, Second Edition
... neither fish nor flesh; neither fish, flesh, nor fowl. Not one or the other, not
something fitting any category under discussion. For example, They felt he was
neither fish nor fowlinot qualified to lead the department, yet not appropriate to
work as ...
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
Variants: neither fish, flesh, nor fowl; neither fish, flesh, fowl, nor good red herring,
though, as in Dryden, the fowl is omitted at times. P.B.: in later C.20, the
predominant sense is the 'indeterminate'—— neither one thing nor another;
sometimes ...
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The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
fish nor flesh, be neither . (In C.16, flesh occ. precedes fish.) To be hesitant,
undecided, indeterminate: coll; C.16– 20. Shakespeare, 'She's neither fish nor
flesh.' Variants: neither fish, flesh, nor fowl;neither fish, flesh, fowl, nor good red
herring, ...
[unconformable to the surroundings] fish out of water; neither one thing nor
another, neither fish nor fowl, neither fish flesh nor fowl nor good red neither fish
flesh nor fowl nor good red herring; one in a million, one in a way, one in a
thousand; ...
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Allen's Dictionary of English Phrases
neither fish, flesh, nor fowl / good red herring of an indeterminate type or
character; hard to classify: also found in other variants. The phrase is recorded
from the 16th cent. in John Heywood's collection of proverbs of 1546, and is
derived from ...
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Bloomsbury Dictionary of Idioms
NEITHER. neither fish/flesh nor fowl (nor good red herring) neither one thing nor
the other. I like music and I like dancing but I can't stand ballet – it's neither fish
nor fowl. In the Middle Ages, the term referred specifically to foodstuffs that were ...
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The Chambers Dictionary
... of another to make offensive distinctions: neither fish nor flesh {nor good red
herring) or neither fish, flesh, nor fowl neither one thing nor another; odd fish or
queer fish a person of odd habits, or of a nature with which one is not in sympathy
; ...
It's neither fish, flesh nor fowl. fomjiwmftWM ? mm~m other/ bigger fish to fry Xtift®
! WfllM •3?feli[ (I've of/i<-r /7.s7, to /ry. K^lftj ° ) queer fish 0L QUEER there are (
plenty) more fish in the sea 'M Sf M&££KjJS (Betty is nothing out of the ordinary; ...
He ate neither fish, flesh, nor fowl. He neither ate fish nor allowed his son to do so
. I see either great success or great failure coming. I either see great success
coming, or I am blind. He will neither go nor send. He neither will go nor will he ...
Edwin Herbert Lewis, 1911
3 NACHRICHTEN, IN DENEN DER BEGRIFF «NEITHER FISH, FLESH, NOR FOWL» VORKOMMT
Erfahre, worüber man in den einheimischen und internationalen Medien spricht und wie der Begriff
neither fish, flesh, nor fowl im Kontext der folgenden Nachrichten gebraucht wird.
Headhunters: The Search for a Science of the Mind by Ben …
... later recalled that for his colleagues at Oxford University a psychologist was “neither fish, flesh, nor fowl”: scientists thought him a philosopher ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 14»
Do birds and fowls fly?
However, such phrases as the fowls of the air (admittedly archaic), water fowl, and especially the alliterating triad neither fish, flesh, nor fowl ... «OUPblog, Sep 12»
The Animal Review: The Genius, Mediocrity, and Breathtaking …
And truly neither fish, flesh, nor fowl is the penguin; as an edible, pertaining neither to Carnival nor Lent; without exception the most ambiguous and least lovely ... «Bookslut, Mai 10»
