odd duck

== English == === Pronunciation === === Noun === odd duck (plural odd ducks) (idiomatic) An unusual person, especially one with an idiosyncratic personality or peculiar behavioral characteristics. 2006 Dec. 21, "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. ==== Synonyms ==== odd fish, strange bird, weirdo; see also Thesaurus:strange person ==== Translations ====