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horse of a different color en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. (US, idiomatic) An unrelated or only incidentally related matter with distinctly different significance.
   • "Against physical danger I am willing to offer myself at any time to your Highness . . . . But to walk straight into jail, with my eyes open, that's a horse of a different color." 1908, Harold MacGrath, chapter 22, in The Lure of the Mask:

Forms

Relateds

different breed of cat · tiger of a different stripe

Translations (15)

fi aivan eri juttu (unrelated or incidentally related matter with different significance) · de völlig andere Geschichte (unrelated or incidentally related matter with different significance) · ro altă mâncare de pește (unrelated or incidentally related matter with different significance) · es es otro cantar (unrelated or incidentally related matter with different significance) · is allt annað mál (unrelated or incidentally related matter with different significance) · is annar handleggur (unrelated or incidentally related matter with different significance) · pl inna para kaloszy (unrelated or incidentally related matter with different significance) · is allt önnur Ella (unrelated or incidentally related matter with different significance) · ru совсе́м друго́е де́ло (unrelated or incidentally related matter with different significance) · de ganz andere Sache (unrelated or incidentally related matter with different significance) · es eso es harina de otro costal (unrelated or incidentally related matter with different significance) · ca Això són figues d'un altre paner (unrelated or incidentally related matter with different significance) · is allt annar handleggur (unrelated or incidentally related matter with different significance) · is gjörólíkt (unrelated or incidentally related matter with different significance) · nl andere koek (unrelated or incidentally related matter with different significance)