horse of a different color

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English

Alternative forms

• horse of a different colour (British spelling)

Pronunciation

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Noun

horse of a different color

1. (American spelling, idiomatic) An unrelated or only incidentally related matter with distinctly different significance.
   • 1908, Harold MacGrath, chapter 22, in The Lure of the Mask:

     "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."

Translations

unrelated or incidentally related matter with different significance

• Catalan: Això són figues d'un altre paner
• Dutch: andere koek m
• Finnish: aivan eri juttu
• French: ^{(please verify)} c’est une autre paire de manches (fr)
• Icelandic: allt annað mál, gjörólíkt, allt annar handleggur, annar handleggur, allt önnur Ella
• Polish: inna para kaloszy (pl) f
• Russian: совсе́м друго́е де́ло (sovsém drugóje délo)
• Spanish: eso es harina de otro costal, es otro cantar

References

• “horse of a different color”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.