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]

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Example Sentences

But if you trim your weighting in a sector that accounts for about 40% of the value of the S&P 500, and put your money in something else, such as small-caps, that seems sensible.

From Barron's

“I thought there must be something else,” she said in a 2021 video interview recorded by the Virginia Museum of History & Culture.

From The Wall Street Journal

But there is a glimmer of something else there.

From Los Angeles Times

There was something else that academics offered Epstein beyond a veneer of respectability: access.

From The Wall Street Journal

And if they had, it was quickly overshadowed by something else in our breakneck news cycle, like FBI director Kash Patel chugging beer with the gold medal–winning men’s hockey team.

From Slate

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