Idiom
horse of a different color
Meaning
An unrelated or only incidentally related matter with distinctly different significance.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“That is a horse of a different color.”
“We can fix the broken window, but the leaking roof is a horse of a different color.”
“While the initial proposal focused on minor budget adjustments, the sudden demand for a complete structural overhaul is a horse of a different color entirely.”
Examples
simple
“That is a horse of a different color.”
contextual
“We can fix the broken window, but the leaking roof is a horse of a different color.”
complex
“While the initial proposal focused on minor budget adjustments, the sudden demand for a complete structural overhaul is a horse of a different color entirely.”
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