rare bird
Noun
Meaning
a rare or unique person
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A good servant is a real godsend, but truly this is a rare bird in the land.
Once more I realized to what an extent earthly happiness is made to the measure of man. It is not a rare bird which we must pursue at one moment in heaven, at the next in our minds. Happiness is a domestic bird found in our own courtyards.
An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.
And as a character, what I found very inspiring about playing Dharma, especially at that time, is that the women on television were more neurotic than they were free. And I thought, this is a rare bird and this is unique on television and I think it's really refreshing.
As of this writing, three out of three example sentences for whopping are of the pre-number variety, suggesting that an independent whopping is a rare bird.
This is New Hampshire Audubon's Rare Bird Alert for Monday, May 21.