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Origin. Other rarely heard versions of this idiom are neither fish nor flesh and neither fish, flesh, nor fowl. As well, John Heywood’s list of proverbs (1546) contained another version: Neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring. It is suggested that the current idiom arose from this proverb from the 16th century.
BE NEITHER FISH NOR FOWL meaning: 1. like one thing in some ways and like another thing in other ways 2. like one thing in some ways…. Learn more.
BE NEITHER FISH NOR FOWL ý nghĩa, định nghĩa, BE NEITHER FISH NOR FOWL là gì: 1. like one thing in some ways and like another thing in other ways 2. like one thing in some ways….
fish: [noun] an aquatic animal. any of numerous cold-blooded strictly aquatic craniate vertebrates that include the bony fishes and usually the cartilaginous and jawless fishes and that have typically an elongated somewhat spindle-shaped body terminating in a broad caudal (see caudal 2) fin, limbs in the form of fins when present at all, and a ...
Etymology: Possibly a variant of neither fish, flesh, nor fowl, itself a variant of neither fish, flesh, nor good red herring which is attested from the 16th century. . According to Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1895), the latter term referred to three types of food generally consumed by the different classes in society: fish by the clergy, flesh by the common people, and red ...
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