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词汇 difference
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apples and oranges
a pair of words representing two entities that are not similar. (Fixed order.)
You can't talk about Fred and Ted in the same breath! They're apples and oranges.Talking about her current book and her previous best-seller is like comparing apples and oranges.
(as) different as night and day
Completely different.
Although Bobby and Billy are twins, they are as different as night and day.Birds and bats appear to be similar, but they are different as night and day.
be poles apart
to be very different; to be far from coming to an agreement.
Mr. and Mrs. Jones don't get along well. They are poles apart.They'll never sign the contract because they are poles apart.
draw a line between something and something else
to separate two things; to distinguish or differentiate between two things.
It's necessary to draw a line between bumping into people and striking them.It's very hard to draw the line between slamming a door and just closing it loudly.
far cry from something
a thing that is very different from something else. (Informal.)
What you did was a far cry from what you said you were going to do.The song they played was a far cry from what I call music.
have nothing to do with someone or something
not to be related to or concerned with someone or something.
Your wants and needs have nothing to do with my wants and needs.Waterloo? That has nothing to do with water!
horse of another color and horse of a different color
another matter altogether.
I was talking about trees, not bushes. Bushes are a horse of another color.Gambling is not the same as investing in the stock market. It's a horse of a different color.
march to a different drummer
to believe in a different set of principles.
John is marching to a different drummer, and he doesn't come to our parties anymore.Since Sally started marching to a different drummer, she has had a lot of great new ideas.
something else (again)
something entirely different. (Informal.)
Borrowing is one thing, but stealing is something else.Skin diving is easy and fun, but scuba diving is something else again.
difference
noun
1
notice. Jocular; usually phrased as 'no-one took a blind bit of difference' UK, 2001.
2
any weapon used in a fight or crime US, 1950
idiomdifferencea ___ with a differenceused in order to say that you approve because something is different and better:These are children's book reviews with a difference, where the children themselves tell you what they've read and how they like it.We ate at a country restaurant with a difference - homemade cheeses are the speciality.same differencespoken used in order to say that two things are the same, or have the same result or effect:"Where should we set up the speakers - in this corner or that one?" "It doesn't matter - same difference."He was dressed up as Batman - no, Superman. Same difference.
See:
  • a difference of opinion
  • a world of difference
  • a/the world of difference
  • all the difference in the world
  • apples and oranges, like comparing
  • dime's worth of difference
  • make a difference
  • make a difference in
  • make a difference in (someone or something)
  • make a difference to
  • make a difference to (one)
  • make a world of difference
  • make a, no, some, etc. difference
  • make all the difference
  • make all the difference (in the world)
  • make no difference
  • makes no difference to me
  • not a blind bit of (something)
  • not a blind bit of notice, difference, etc.
  • put aside (one's) differences
  • same difference
  • set aside (one's) differences
  • sink (one's) differences
  • sink your differences
  • split the difference
  • tell the difference between
  • tell the difference between (someone or something)
  • vive la différence
  • What difference does it make?
  • what's the difference
  • with a difference
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