odd duck

odd duck

A rather unusual, strange, or peculiar person. His new girlfriend is nice enough, but she's a bit of an odd duck, don't you think?
See also: duck, odd
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • odd bird
  • queer duck
  • strange duck
  • duck
  • odd bod
  • odd-bod
  • odd and curious
  • ay
  • ay up me duck
  • a dead duck
References in periodicals archive
Whether you were born into a family that is very different from you, or married into one, or moved to a community or place that is alien to who you are, it is normal in those times to feel like an odd duck and very alone.
The Loneliness Paradoxes
We stopped 100 metres from the shore and floated on the tranquil blue waters with just the odd duck or swan for company.
Changing of the Garda; Italian lakeside-loving couple find their favourite tranquil retreats of Bardolino and Cisano also offer thrills and chills to keep kids happy too
"I'm the odd duck who didn't quit," he joked to The Dallas Morning News in an interview this month.
Congressman swept up into storm over explicit photo
And one of the things he always says to me is that we both just feel profoundly lucky, because each of us is not right for most people, but we are so right for each other." "I'm an odd duck, but I'm her odd duck," Wasow said, smiling.
"Can't tell how helpless it feels to not be able to move and cry for help"
He also called Shkreli an "odd duck" who frequently donned bunny slippers and a stethoscope while walking around his office at Retrophin as CEO.
Martin Shkreli's Laywer Calls Pharma Bro 'Strange' And 'Maybe Just Nuts'
The muskox is an odd duck because the hunting method is highly dependent on time of year.
America's most difficult animals: while no big game animal is a slam-dunk, some are more challenging than others
Datus was a bit of an odd duck. Tall, rail thin and fiercely intelligent, he held strong opinions about hunting over and training bird dogs, as did I (and still do, by God).
Slow down (you move too fast): remember the tortoise and the hare?
Lim depicts Lynch as a harmless odd duck who's a big believer in the power of Transcendental Meditation (TM), a type of mantra meditation --and even founded an organization, the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace, to fund the teaching of the practice in schools.
A Lynchian director From Another Place. Could it be Twin Peaks?
Jake is a bit of an odd duck, a zealous survivalist who has trained his son in the arts of camouflage, self-defense and living off the grid.
You're messing with the wrong money
Of course, medicine is a bit of an odd duck 30% science and 70% art.
Letters from Maine: solidarity
At the La Jolla Playhouse, it's something of an odd duck: dark and medieval in mood, yet with exuberant Broadway roots plainly showing.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
For the CW, the sitcom is an odd duck, a family comedy on a schedule rife with zombies, superheroes and vampires in shows that include comic-book based newcomer "The Flash.''
Actress stands her ground with 'Jane'
Against that backdrop, Intel's distribution of Hadoop appears, on the surface, to be an odd duck. Intel is not in the habit of offering software frameworks, and the brand, while ubiquitous, is not associated specifically with Hadoop, databases or big data software.
Does the world really need another Hadoop distribution?
Talk about an odd duck. Instead of having a sliding handle under the barrel that the operator pulls rearward to function the gun, this Burgess designed repeater has its pump handle over the stock's wrist.
The other old west repeaters: Winchester may have enjoyed the most success in the market, but the "Red W" had many competitors