queer as a clockwork orange

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Strange, odd, unusual.
  2. Unusually camp, unusually homosexual.
    — He sauntered the flunkied restaurant, queer /As a clockwork orange and not scared. /God, I was grateful for the nights we shared.

词汇关系

近义词
queer as a coot queer as a nine bob note queer as a three dollar bill

词源

Cockney phrase from East London indicating something bizarre internally, but appearing natural and normal on the surface. Author Anthony Burgess appropriated the phrase for the title of his novella A Clockwork Orange.
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