neither fish, flesh, nor good red herring

الإنجليزية - الإنجليزية

تعريف neither fish, flesh, nor good red herring في الإنجليزية الإنجليزية القاموس.

Unsuitable for anyone or anything; unfit for any purpose

الواصلة

nei·ther fish, flesh, nor good Red her·ring

علم أصول الكلمات

() The three foods are metonyms for those things suitable to each of a Mediæval society’s classes of people; fish represents the clergy, flesh represents commoners, whilst red herring represents paupers; the three classes are simplistically regarded as exhaustive.