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something else

Idioms  

  1. 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

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“I think it’s ludicrous that the city might turn it into something else. While they’re at it, why don’t they make the Hemingway house a Vrbo?”

From The Wall Street Journal

I never felt as if I wished I could be reading something else.

From Los Angeles Times

Look, I hope that I’m building towards something else extraordinary in the future, and it’s like a new mission with each film and each story and each character.

From Los Angeles Times

"If that is to be his last moment we definitely have to find something else going forward."

From BBC

"If I find something else later that looks like that species, I need to go to the holotype and compare things to know if that new population belongs to that species or is something else. So, the holotype is the specimen that represents the species."

From Science Daily

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