The phrase "a case of odd" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe a situation that is unusual or peculiar, but it lacks clarity and proper context.
Example: "The event turned out to be a case of odd behavior from the participants, leaving everyone confused."
Alternatives: "an instance of strangeness" or "a situation of peculiarity".
Detective Louis Savarese is a case of odd casting.
In a case of odd bedfellows, Obama has found new Republican allies in pursuing the deal.
In a case of odd allies, Glenn Beck, the conservative Fox News commentator, said Mr. Shahzad was entitled to his rights.
In a case of odd timing, Mr. Bastian won the men's wear award after a season in which he had put his collection on hiatus to reorganize his company and address his prices.
IT was, to say the least, a case of odd timing: Last Monday, after Franklin Resources announced that Michael F. Price was surrendering his chief executive title and stock-picking duties at its Mutual Series fund unit, the company increased the front-end loads for small investors in the six Mutual Series funds.
In a case of truly odd bedfellows, that puts him in alignment with Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, who have long called for greater scrutiny of technology companies.
TRIPOLI, Libya -- The chess match last week between Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi and a visitor from the remote steppe of southern Russia who had traveled to Tripoli to promote chess in Libyan schools was a case of the oddest of couples, at the oddest of times.
And while hospitals have been on the alert for odd disease patterns since Sept. 11, they are now being advised to watch for even a single case of odd symptoms, because so far, anthrax cases have not come in clusters.
It will not be merely a case of phoning the odd superstar and saying "Sorry, but what could I do?" Montgomerie will have to face the media, who will all too readily recall a Monty declaration made back in June.
The meeting in Kabul between Hamid Karzai and Mohammad Khatami, the Afghan and Iranian presidents, was a case of Central Asia's odd couple: Mr. Karzai the stylishly caped steward of Western hopes for a moderate, democratic Afghanistan; Mr. Khatami the austere Muslim cleric who represents an Islamic theocracy condemned by President Bush as a member of the world's "axis of evil".
I recently had a fierce case of odd-man-out syndrome at the Broadway revival of "Lend Me a Tenor," Ken Ludwig's dunderheaded farce about an opera star's ill-fated trip to Cleveland.
