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单词 rare bird, a
释义

rare bird, a


An exceptional individual, a unique person, as in That wife of yours is a rare bird; you're lucky to have her. This idiom, generally used as a compliment, is a translation of the Latin rara avis, which itself was used from about 1600 on and began to be translated only in the late 1800s.

Words nearby rare bird, a

Arapahoe, Arapaho Peak, arapaima, Arapesh, Ararat, rare bird, a, araroba, Aras, Aratus of Sicyon, Araucan, Araucana
The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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