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Queer as a clockwork orange

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Adjective
  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."

Etymology

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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