a world of difference

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   used to emphasize how much difference there is between two things

   There's a world of difference between being called crow-head and being called carrots.

In the movies · 1

• There's a world of difference between being called crow-head and being called carrots.Anne of Green Gables1985

From the same entry

• be all the world to
• the best of both worlds possible worlds
• be worlds apart
• come down in the world
• come into the world
• do the world of good
• for all the world as if
• have the world at your feet
• how, why, in the world
• in an ideal perfect world
• in the world
• in a world of your own

More idioms

• at the back of your mind
• be asking for trouble
• every bit as good
• only have yourself to blame
• let's hear it for
• on display
• say the word
• mean to say
• see the world
• at the crack of dawn
• be all the rage
• frighten to death