be another matter/thing
to be a different situation that is likely to be judged differently:
Cars are useful, but their impact on the environment is another matter altogether.
to be very different and likely to involve more problems or difficulties:
Wanting to help the homeless is one thing, finding cheap secure accommodation for them is quite another (thing).
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Being and appearing different
- another
- be a far cry from sth idiom
- be another/a different kettle of fish idiom
- be far removed from sth idiom
- be like a fish out of water idiom
- buck
- conflict
- depart
- depart from sth
- deviate
- differ
- differentiate
- diverge
- fish
- flow
- rebrand
- rebranding
- remove
- set sth/sb apart
- unbridgeable
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Complicated and difficult to do