a whole new ball game

(also a different ball game) informal

Definition

› a completely different situation from how things were before: We'd been climbing in Scotland, but the Himalayas were a whole new ball game.

(Definition of a whole new ball game from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

to refuse to accept something or someone because you feel that they are not worth having

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