queer as a clockwork orange

Signification (Anglais)

  1. Strange, odd, unusual.
  2. Unusually camp, unusually homosexual.

Étymologie (Anglais)

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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