Exotic Phrases

Phrases

• Adversity makes strange bedfellows
• And adversity makes strange bedfellows
• As queer as a chocolate orange
• As queer as a nine bob note
• As queer as folk
• Brighton Pier (Cockney rhyming slang for queer)
• Cruel and unusual punishment
• Foreign exchange
• Ginger Beer (Cockney rhyming slang for queer)
• Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows
• On queer street

• Queer Street
• Queer as folk
• Queer bashing
• Queer fish
• Queer the pitch
• She's So Unusual (Cyndi Lauper album)
• Strange Brew (Cream song)
• Strange bedfellows
• The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there (the opening line of The Go-Between)
• There's nowt so queer as folk
• We're here we're queer