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neither fish nor flesh en · ADJ

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  1. (alt-of, alternative, not-comparable) Alternative form of neither fish, flesh, nor good red herring (synonym of neither fish nor fowl).
    alt of flesh
    • 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: