another story

idiom

used to say that one thing is very different from another
She got good grades in math, but English was another story.

Examples of another story in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web But those stars also tell another story, and that is how astrology is impacted by this cyclical alignment of the sun, the moon and the earth. Kristine Johnson, CBS News, 3 Apr. 2024 But finalizing the operational designs was another story. Mike Hirschberg, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024 Similar to the general election, where the candidates need a majority of voters in the Electoral College to win the White House — that's another story altogether — presidential candidates need a majority of delegate votes at the convention to win the party's presidential nomination. USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2024 But the fact that the author withheld his name, and that the book’s Amsterdam publisher claimed on the title page that it had been printed in Hamburg, told another story. Adam Kirsch, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024 Whether or not the embryo would implant and eventually become a baby was another story. Ruthie Ackerman, Vogue, 13 Mar. 2024 The Whopper is, for my money, worth the extra couple of grams of fat and carbohydrates, but that’s another story. Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 23 Feb. 2024 What happened in Schenectady in 1969 is another story. Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2024

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“Another story.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/another%20story. Accessed 24 Apr. 2024.

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