poles apart

English

Adjective

poles apart (not comparable)

1. (idiomatic) totally opposite

   1993 Immortality, resurrection, and the age of the universe: a kabbalistic view‎ - Page 31

   In a purely spiritual sense, the two are poles apart and without the material could never be brought together in a single entity.

   2001, Karl Figlio - Psychoanalysis, science and masculinity‎ - Page 213

   At this level, science and magic are poles apart and yet they are the same

   November 29 2009 Times of India - Two cities, two lives

   Two city living however has its own flipside, not the least the difficulty straddling the two different cultures of two cities that are poles apart.

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