| 单词 | a different pair of shoes |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa different pair of shoes c. colloquial. a different pair of shoes (and variants): a different matter altogether. ΚΠ 1845 G. A. À Beckett & M. Lemon St. George & Dragon ii. i. 15 Dra. Should you those slippers lose? Alm. Oh! that will be another pair of shoes. 1849 T. Arnold Let. 28 Aug. in N.Z. Lett. (1966) 135 Nothing is easier than to make a beautiful scheme of education on paper, but to make it work is ‘quite another pair of shoes’, as they say in New Zealand. 1859 W. M. Thackeray Virginians II. xvi. 130 If Mr. George had been in the army, that..would have been another pair of boots. 1931 G. B. Shaw Widowers' Houses iii. 58 in Wks. Dooty's another pair o' shoes. 1939 L. Woolf Let. 23 June (1990) 419 For the Soviet Union as a socialist state I have..an affection (though not for the Governments and governing cliques—which is a very different pair of shoes). 2001 Nation (Thailand) (Nexis) 27 Apr. It [sc. globalization] has a lot to do with electronic communication... Economic globalisation is another pair of shoes. < as lemmas |
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