neither fish, flesh, nor good red herring

短语

男不男女不女

发音

AU

别名

neither fish, flesh, nor fowl neither fish nor flesh neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Synonym of neither fish nor fowl (“not easily categorized; not rightly belonging or fitting well in a given group or situation; also, not having the advantages of the various options”).

    男不男女不女

    唔汤唔水

    习语

词源

The three foods are metonyms for those things suitable to each of medieval society’s classes of people; fish represents the clergy, flesh represents commoners, whilst red herring represents paupers; the three classes are simplistically regarded as exhaustive.

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