rare Idiom, Proverb
rare bird, a
rare bird, a An exceptional individual, a unique person, as in
That wife of yours is a rare bird; you're lucky to have her. This idiom, generally used as a compliment, is a translation of the Latin
rara avis, which itself was used from about 1600 on and began to be translated only in the late 1800s.
rarely ever
rarely ever see
hardly ever.