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a far cry
Idioms and Phrases
see far cry .Example Sentences
The average number of booked recording days for a sampling of L.A.’s scoring stages is now 11 days for 2025 so far, a far cry from the average of 127 days for all of 2022 during the peak of the streaming boom, said Peter Rotter, founder of Encompass Music Partners, who helped organize the town hall.
But when cameras capture Taylor in a semi-contained fit of anger before leaving for treatment, it’s both a disquieting sight and a far cry from the intervention so civilly depicted in the most recent season of “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City.”
But that is a far cry from recognising it as legal.
The Pope's rooms were a far cry from the opulence of the Vatican quarters typically destined to pontiffs, which Francis had turned down at the start of his papacy saying he felt the need to "live among people".
It was fashion week in New York, and the clothes hitting the runways were drab — plainly tailored and neutral, a far cry from Talley’s preference for eye-catching spectacle.
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