a whole new ballgame
Definition
› a completely different situation, often one that is difficult or that you know little about: We'd done a lot of climbing in Scotland but the Himalayas were a whole new ballgame.Different and difference
(Definition of a whole new ballgame from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- a breath of fresh air idiom
- a world of difference idiom
- alternative adjective
- alternative noun
- another determiner, pronoun (DIFFERENT)
- asymmetric adjective
- chasm noun
- distinctive adjective
- distorted adjective
- divergence noun
- divers adjective
- diverse adjective
- otherwise adjective
- permutation noun
- refreshing adjective
- several adjective
- step noun (FOOT MOVEMENT)
- the exception that proves the rule idiom
- variance noun
- yawning adjective
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