horse of a different color

horse of a different color
a horse of another color & a horse of a different color
Fig. another matter altogether. •

I was talking about trees, not bushes. Bushes are a horse of another color.

Gambling is not the same as investing in the stock market. It's a horse of a different color.

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or[horse of another color] {n. phr.}, {informal} Something altogether separate and different. * /Anyone can be broke, but to steal is a horse of a different color./ * /Do you mean that the boy with that pretty girl is her brother? I thought he was her boyfriend. Well, that's a horse of another color./

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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