What cons do, following bloody exceptional person (4,4)
I believe the answer is:
rare bird
'exceptional person' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'what cons do following bloody' is the wordplay.
'what cons do' becomes 'bird' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'following' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'bloody' becomes 'rare' (I've seen this before).
'bird' after 'rare' is 'RARE BIRD'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for rare bird that I've seen before include "Unusual type" , "Exceptional person" , "the talking point of twitchers?" , "Exceptional thing" .)