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something else again
Idioms and Phrases
A different case entirely, as in If he'd called to cancel, we wouldn't mind, but not showing up, that's something else again . [Mid-1800s]Example Sentences
Navarro is something else again: He’s highly educated and not especially rich.
Deadwyler and Chukwu turn the scene into something else again, a demonstration of resolve, righteous anger and love.
“No shame if you can’t breastfeed, but if you can & are somehow convinced that your own milk isn’t as good as a ‘scientifically researched product’, that’s something else again.
“Lad, you haven’t even begun! Navigation—that’s something else again! Want to learn it? I reckon I could teach you.”
When Nat had finished, he said, “Hmmm. You are quick at figures, Mr. Bowditch. Well, we’ve got our latitude, all right. The longitude—that’s something else again. I wish chronometers weren’t so infernally expensive.”
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