queer as a clockwork orange

短语

发音

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释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Strange, odd, unusual.

  2. 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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