be chalk and cheese

To be very different from one another. Good luck getting those two to talk to each other—they're like chalk and cheese. My daughters are chalk and cheese these days—one loves baseball and the other loves ballet.

See also: and, chalk, cheese

Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

See also:

like chalk and cheese
(as) different as chalk and cheese
as different as chalk and cheese
chalk
Cheese it the cops!
cheese it-the cops!
apples and oranges, like comparing
chalk out
have more holes than Swiss cheese
Swiss

References in periodicals archive

According to Border's article in the Daily Telegraph, he opined that the standard of bowling Warner will face in Africa and the conditions he would experience will be chalk and cheese to the challenges that await him in England.

Border blasts 'brainless' decision to send Warner to Africa for match practice

词组	be chalk and cheese
释义	be chalk and cheese be chalk and cheese To be very different from one another. Good luck getting those two to talk to each other—they're like chalk and cheese. My daughters are chalk and cheese these days—one loves baseball and the other loves ballet. See also: and, chalk, cheese Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. See also: like chalk and cheese (as) different as chalk and cheese as different as chalk and cheese chalk Cheese it the cops! cheese it-the cops! apples and oranges, like comparing chalk out have more holes than Swiss cheese Swiss References in periodicals archive According to Border's article in the Daily Telegraph, he opined that the standard of bowling Warner will face in Africa and the conditions he would experience will be chalk and cheese to the challenges that await him in England. Border blasts 'brainless' decision to send Warner to Africa for match practice
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