c'est autre chose
AmericanEtymology
Origin of c'est autre chose
Literally, “that is another thing”
Example Sentences
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L'union des nations ne souffre pas de difficultés sur la carte géographique; mais dans la réalité, c'est autre chose; il y a des nations immiscibles....
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All this is not impossible for a strong man in good health; for a prisoner, exhausted by fourteen years' captivity in a dungeon—c'est autre chose.
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I want them very much indeed, privately, but for the academy—c’est autre chose.
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"Le cur� de Suzanne, c'est autre chose," she reflected, for though technically a soldier was he not a brancardier rescuing the wounded?
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But you—c'est autre chose—monsieur est bien range—an artist perhaps for all that—'e see me dance and think perhaps, 'Voyons—she cannot dance at all—nor sing—nor nozzings.
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