"As queer as Dick's hatband" nghĩa là gì?

"(As) queer as Dick's hatband" = kỳ dị như băng mũ của Dick -> nghĩa là rất bất thường, vô cùng kỳ lạ, đặc biệt.

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Read too much Georgette Heyer last night. Couldn't stop, you know. Fagged to death (mệt rã rời) this morning, and done to a cow's thumb. Just looked in the mirror. Looking as queer as Dick's hatband.

"I don't mean funny in that way. It ain't necessary to laugh so hard. I mean it's queer."

“Ah, queer,” said Lucky, sobering down and shaking his head. “Yes, sir, it certainly is queer. Queer as Dick's hatband.”

“But I'm not taking any chances this time,” said Mr. Hackenmeyer. “It's just possible that bear don't like doughnuts. So I sent Pedro to bring him in if he don't start this way."

Giving such a Life Peerage to such a festering gumboil (cục mủ) as Bercow would be a “queer as Queen Dick’s hatband” moment. Before gay rights supporters accuse me of hate speech, I’d better explain that unusual expression. The people of England saw through the absurdity (vô lý) of this anti-monarchist (chống quân chủ) being succeeded on the nod by his son. They nicknamed Richard Cromwell “Queen Dick”. The word “hatband” was another way of saying “crown”. Public mockery (chế nhạo) helped to ensure that Richard Cromwell lasted on his republican throne for less than a year. 

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