something else again

1. 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

“It’s one thing to design clothes, it’s something else again to hang around the salesrooms watching the public react to them,” Armani told Time magazine in 1982.

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Navarro is something else again: He’s highly educated and not especially rich.

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Deadwyler and Chukwu turn the scene into something else again, a demonstration of resolve, righteous anger and love.

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“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.

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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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