a different kettle of fish

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   a completely different situation or person from the one previously mentioned

   Different kettle of fish. You were made to do it.

In the movies · 1

• Different kettle of fish. You were made to do it.The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp1943

Learn it in full scenes

• The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp1943
  • War Starts at Midnight
  • The Home Guard Exercise Turns Real
  • General Wynne-Candy Is Taken Prisoner

From the same entry

• put a new complexion on
• know different
• march to a different drummer
• be another different matter
• pull in different directions
• sing a different tune
• tell a different story