out of the ordinary vs strange

out of the ordinary

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

strange

noun
  • Sex outside of one's current relationship. 

adj
  • Outside of one's current relationship; unfamiliar. 

  • Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary. 

  • Having the quantum mechanical property of strangeness. 

  • Not belonging to one. 

  • Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience. 

  • Of an attractor: having a fractal structure. 

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