| 单词 | as queer as a clockwork orange |
| 释义 | > as lemmasas queer as a clockwork orange a. British. Used in similes and comparisons denoting a person or thing considered to be extremely peculiar; (also) as the type of someone (esp. a man) who is homosexual or overtly gay. Chiefly in as queer as a clockwork orange. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > abnormality > abnormal [phrase] like nothing on earth1861 from outer space1961 clockwork orange1963 1963 P. Hawkins Real Thing 26 in S. Morris & P. Hawkins Lord of Death & Real Thing I mean, you could smell them out a mile off. Bent. (He touches his head.) Like—like a clockwork orange. 1966 G. M. Williams Camp xii. 184 Few of the section liked Fairyfeet. They all thought he was as queer as a clockwork orange. 1981 ‘G. Gaunt’ Incomer (1982) xviii. 99 ‘I heard what Sergeant Sheldon's reported.’ ‘Didn't we all? It's queer as a clockwork orange.’ 2008 R. Hill Cure for All Dis. (2009) v. 50 They've started me on physio with Tony down in this little gym. Queer as a clockwork orange, but he knows his stuff. < as lemmas |
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