off-the-wall vs out of the ordinary

off-the-wall

adj
  • Wildly unconventional; bizarre; absurd. 

  • Of a person's behaviour: greatly inappropriate. 

out of the ordinary

prep
  • Unusual or exceptional, especially for the better (often used in the negative). 

How often have the words off-the-wall and out of the ordinary occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )