Idiom "strike me peculiar"?

Solution 1:

The construction strikes me [adj.] instead of the standard strikes me as [adj.] may occur in informal spoken English in Britain, America, or Australia, including, apparently, a fictional talking horse. No difference in meaning results from omitting the as, and there appears to be only a limited set of adjectives employed in this construction, at least within earshot of a search engine.

’But what strikes me odd,’ says she to me, ’is that all the harticles is marked with C, and not one with N.’ Now, sir,” continued Mrs. Brown, “I always goes a great deal by the under clothes, and that is a proof positer to me that they are something higher than they seems. You often see your flourishing would-be grandees, with a gown and bonnet on fit for a queen; and then if you could only catch a look at the shimmy, you would be surprised.” — Elizabeth Caroline Grey, The Duke, v. 2, London 1839.(Odd mix of quotation marks is original)

“That strikes me queer,” replied the horse after a moment's thought. “You can scarcely read or write, your grammar is way off, and your wife and child are ashamed of their clothes. …” Nepean Times (Penrith NSW), 6 July 1889.

The sarcasm of the firm who cannot “Keep Cool” with a “Forty-seven Thousand Dollar Stock” on hand, and only $5000 to raise, strikes me funny, and his readers as a fake. — Boot and Shoe Recorder v. 21, no. 22, Boston MA, 31 Aug. 1892.

It strikes me peculiar that a town should pay $60.00 a year for a road and $287.00 for maintenance … — Proceedings, Sixth Annual Good Roads Convention of the Board of Supervisors of the State of New York, Albany, 24–25 Jan. 1905.

… but what strikes me peculiar in this discussion is that Mr. Walsh tells us he has had a stoker which has given good success, and which he has used for a couple of years. — Proceedings, Annual Convention of the American Railway Master Mechanics’ Association, v.41, 1908.

What struck me peculiar, too, were him keepin' that bit yacht lyin' out at moorin's, for he never seemed to use her; an' to me certain knowledge the only time she'd been out up till then were when I took her a trial trip. — The Scots Magazine 13 (1930), 356.

It strikes me unusual, we get testimony as to the invulnerability of these satellites to really an awful lot of low power types of threats, and I am not trying to get into anything classified, but how is it that we have not been planning ahead in this area? — Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), Department of Defense Authorization, FY 1985, Senste Subcommittee on Strategic and Theater Nuclear Forces, 12 April 1984.

“It strikes me bizarre that they care so little about their customers’ privacy,” ACLU executive director Steven Brown said in a phone interview. — Warwick Beacon (RI), 16 Apr. 2015.