something else

1. A person, thing, or event that is quite remarkable, as in That pitcher is something else, or Her new film is something else. The else in this idiom means “other than ordinary.” [Colloquial; early 1990s]

Example Sentences

“It’s one thing to design clothes, it’s something else again to hang around the salesrooms watching the public react to them,” Armani told Time magazine in 1982.

From Los Angeles Times

"I think a normal person with any sophistication would realise they should mention the trust when getting advice about something else. And a deputy prime minister who's already got into a previous tax scrape involving properties, surely should have a go."

From BBC

"There's now a large rug with horses and some nature scenes hanging there, which police say looks like something else used to hang there."

From BBC

The new position further provides Salonen the opportunity for something else he says he has long wanted to do: move back to L.A., where he had raised a family during his 17 years as music director of the L.A.

From Los Angeles Times

She told Rolling Stone magazine the record "wasn't written from a place of 'how do I one-up myself?' or 'how do I re-create something else?'"

From BBC

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