As Queer as a Clockwork Orange:
Very strange.
Highlighting one's different sexual orientation.
Examples:
That boy is as queer (strange) as a clockwork orange.
Meaning from literary English:
Queer [kwiə]:
Strange, peculiar, odd, eccentric.
Suspicious, doubtful, not quite honest, fake, counterfeit
Unwell.
Crazy, mad.
Spoil, thwart (plans, effect, etc.)
Am. Put in an awkward position
sl. Drunk.
sl. Homosexual.
sl. Homosexual
Clockwork ['klokwxk]:
Watch mechanism.
Like a watch, clockwork.
Orange ['ɔrindʒ]:
Orange
Orange tree.
Orange, orange-colored (for color).
hist. Ultra-Protestant (in Northern Ireland).
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