单词 | poles apart |
释义 | > as lemmaspoles apart (also occasionally removed) c. colloquial. poles apart (also occasionally removed): completely different; having nothing in common. Frequently with from. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > contrariety or contrast > contrariety [phrase] > opposite to or poles apart poles apart (also occasionally removed)1830 1830 Biblical Repertory July 433 It is the poles apart from any doctrine which we have ever believed or taught. 1878 Harper's Mag. Feb. 451/1 The mental and moral characteristics of my personages were poles apart from the people whose faces and tricks they might carry. 1957 J. S. Huxley Relig. without Revelation iv. 95 Bringing together whole realms of fact.., which had hitherto seemed poles apart. 1971 Scope (S. Afr.) 19 Mar. 32/3 He is poles removed from men like Carel de Wet on the one side and Douglas Mitchell on the other. 2002 O. Figes Natasha's Dance (2003) iii. iv. 179 The musical language they developed..set them poles apart from the conventions of the Conservatory. < as lemmas |
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