be neither fish nor fowl

be neither fish nor fowl

To be difficult to describe or definitively categorize. What genre of music is this? It's neither fish nor fowl to me. We require a solution that directly deals with the issue at hand, but your proposal is neither fish nor fowl. With crime as it is in this township, the law must be aggressive and dependable; unfortunately, the new constable is neither fish nor fowl.

See also: fish, fowl, neither, nor

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