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Queer Street

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To live in Queer Street. To be of doubtful solvency. To be one marked in a tradesman’s ledger with a quære (inquire), meaning, make inquiries about this customer.

That has put me in Queer Street. That has posed or puzzled me queerly. In this phrase queer means to puzzle; and Queer Street = puzzledom.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Queen’s English (The)
Queen’s Heads
Queen’s Pipe (The)
Queen’s Ware
Queen’s Weather
Queenhithe (London)
Queenstown (Ireland)
Queer
Queer Card (A)
Queer Chap
Queer Street
Quency
Querelle dAllemand
Quern-Biter
Querno
Querpo
Questa Cortesissima (Italian)
Questa Gentilissima (Italian)
Question
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