something else again

Idioms  

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]

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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.

From Los Angeles Times

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

From Salon

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

From New York Times

“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.

From Washington Times

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.”

From Literature