queer as a nine bob note:

British figure of speech to refer to someone as positively homosexual . Based on the fact that British currency never had a nine-bob note. The American equivalents are queer-as-a-three-dollar-bill ; queer-as-a-football-bat , queer-as-a-nine-dollar-bill , queer-as-a-square-egg .

SYNONYMS: bent-as-a-nine-bob-note ; camp-as-a-row-of-tents .

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