(a) whole new ballgame

(a) whole new ballgame
a (whole) new ballgame a completely different situation.

The teenage world is a whole new ballgame for most parents.

Related vocabulary: a different ball of wax

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  • new ballgame — noun a particular situation that is radically different from the preceding situation HDTV looks the same but it s really a whole new ballgame • Syn: ↑ballgame • Hypernyms: ↑situation, ↑state of affairs …   Useful english dictionary

  • (a) new ballgame — a (whole) new ballgame a completely different situation. The teenage world is a whole new ballgame for most parents. Related vocabulary: a different ball of wax …   New idioms dictionary

  • ballgame — ☆ ballgame [bôl′gām΄ ] n. 1. a game played with a ball; specif., a baseball game 2. any contest 3. Informal a set of circumstances [a different ballgame] whole new ballgame or new ballgame 〚? from use in baseball, as when a score …   Universalium

  • ballgame — ☆ ballgame [bôl′gām΄ ] n. 1. a game played with a ball; specif., a baseball game 2. any contest 3. Informal a set of circumstances [a different ballgame] whole new ballgame or new ballgame [? from use in baseball, as when a score has become tied] …   English World dictionary

  • whole — [hōl] adj. [ME (Midland) hool, for hol, hal < OE hal, healthy, whole, hale: akin to Ger heil, ON heill < IE base * kailo , sound, uninjured, auspicious > Welsh coel, omen] 1. a) in sound health; not diseased or injured b) Archaic healed …   English World dictionary

  • ballgame — noun 1. a particular situation that is radically different from the preceding situation HDTV looks the same but it s really a whole new ballgame • Syn: ↑new ballgame • Hypernyms: ↑situation, ↑state of affairs 2. a field game played with a ball… …   Useful english dictionary

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