neither fish, flesh, nor good red herring

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Synonym of neither fish nor fowl (“not easily categorized; not rightly belonging or fitting well in a given group or situation; also, not having the advantages of the various options”). idiomatic,not-comparable
    — The work of Ude is intended for the higher ranks, and for people of fortune. We conceive the book and the cook to have been overrated. It is neither French nor English — neither fish, flesh, nor good red herring. For the rest, Lord Sefton, who was too much of a mere glutton, would have perverted the taste of any cook, however good, who had been long in his service.

词形变化

neither fish, flesh, nor fowl alternative neither fish nor flesh alternative neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring alternative

词源

The three foods are metonyms for those things suitable to each of medieval society’s classes of people; fish represents the clergy, flesh represents commoners, whilst red herring represents paupers; the three classes are simplistically regarded as exhaustive.
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