Syd won't go along with recent trends in grammar; he created his own. He is a bird of a different feather.
Словарь американских идиом. — СПб., Изд-во "Лань". Оригинал: A.Маккей, М.Т.Боткер, Дж.И.Гейтс. 1997.
bird of a different feather — {n. phr.} A person who is free thinking and independent. * /Syd won t go along with recent trends in grammar; he created his own. He is a bird of a different feather./ … Dictionary of American idioms
bird of a different feather — {n. phr.} A person who is free thinking and independent. * /Syd won t go along with recent trends in grammar; he created his own. He is a bird of a different feather./ … Dictionary of American idioms
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bird — birdless, adj. /berrd/, n. 1. any warm blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard shelled egg. 2. a fowl or game bird. 3 … Universalium
Bird — /berrd/, n. Larry, born 1956, U.S. basketball player. * * * I Any of the warm blooded, beaked vertebrates of the class Aves, including more than 9,600 living species. A covering of feathers distinguishes birds from all other animals. Birds have a … Universalium
