a far cry from (something)
1. Vastly different from something. Living in the heart of New York City is certainly a far cry from living in the rural countryside.
2. A long distance away from something. When it's snowing here, it feels especially like we're a far cry from Hawaii.
far cry from something
a thing that is very different from something else. 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.