dilly vs rare bird

dilly

noun
  • Someone or something that is remarkable or unusual. 

  • A dilly bag. 

adj
  • Silly; characteristic of a dill. 

  • Redolent of dill (the herb). 

rare bird

noun
  • An unusual or exceptional person or thing. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rare, bird. 

How often have the words dilly and rare bird occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )