Citations:neither fish, flesh, nor good red herring

English citations of neither fish, flesh, nor good red herring

Phrase

1. (idiomatic, quasi-adjective) Unsuitable for anyone or anything; unfit for any purpose.
   • 1844 April, Scott, “Rise and Progress of Culinary Literature and Cookery [running head]”, in The Foreign Quarterly Review, American edition, volume XXXIII, New York, N.Y.: Published by Leonard Scott & Co. 112 Fulton-Street, page 110:

     The work of Ude is intended for the higher ranks, and for people of fortune. We conceive the book and the cook to have been overrated. It is neither French nor English — neither fish, flesh, nor good red herring. For the rest, Lord Sefton, who was too much of a mere glutton, would have perverted the taste of any cook, however good, who had been long in his service.