neither fish nor flesh

Alternative form of neither fish, flesh, nor good red herring (synonym of neither fish nor fowl).

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Meanings

adjectiveneither fish nor flesh (not comparable)
  1. alternativenot comparableAlternative form of neither fish, flesh, nor good red herring (synonym of neither fish nor fowl).

    Hungary’s numerous local German-speakers (their numbers approached 2,000,000 by our period) were neither fish nor flesh in this regard. They certainly did not count as Austrian.

    1994, R. J. W. Evans, “Austrian Identity in Hungarian Perspective: The Nineteenth Century”, in Ritchie Robertson, Edward Timms, editors, The Habsburg Legacy: National Identity in Historical Perspective (Austrian Studies; 5), Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 29

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
neither fish nor fowl
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