something else

Idioms and Phrases

A person, thing, or event that is quite remarkable, as in That pitcher is something else , or Her new film is something else . The else in this idiom means “other than ordinary.” [ Colloquial ; early 1990s]

Example Sentences

And it is that Something-Else in us which makes the significant part of us, which sets our value and place in the scale of being.

From Project Gutenberg

“To the course which I have taken and am now defending,” replied Something-else within him hotly.

From Project Gutenberg

The same glimmer showed me something else-Brown's face on the ground, white as a stone, his eyes wide open with an unseeing stare.

From Project Gutenberg

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