quite

quite something

Something particularly noteworthy, remarkable, interesting, special, or impressive. Wow, this new car of yours is quite something! It felt like quite something being invited to the party, considering how new I was to the team.
See also: quite, something
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

quite something

something very good or remarkable. You should see their new house. It's quite something. Meg's mother has bought a new hat for the wedding and it's quite something.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See:
  • (something) is one thing, (something else) is (quite) another
  • batting on a sticky wicket
  • be (batting) on a sticky wicket
  • be in a sticky situation
  • be not all there
  • be not all/quite there
  • be quite something
  • big as life
  • feel for
  • have a pair
  • I didn't (quite) catch that
  • I didn't (quite) catch that (last) remark
  • I'm having quite a time
  • in a sticky situation
  • it's one thing to (do sth), it's another thing to (do sth else)
  • it's one thing to (do sth), it's quite another to (do sth else)
  • not (quite) right in the head
  • not quite
  • not quite the thing
  • not suit (one)
  • on a sticky wicket
  • quite
  • quite a
  • quite a (something)
  • quite a bit
  • quite a change
  • quite a few
  • quite a lot
  • quite a number
  • quite a ways
  • quite a while
  • quite a/some somebody/something
  • quite so
  • quite some (something)
  • quite some time
  • quite something
  • quite the (most something)
  • quite the best, the worst, etc. something
  • quite the little
  • quite the little (something)
  • speaking quite frankly
  • This doesn't quite suit me
References in classic literature
She was only a few inches high, and was dressed in green, so that you really would hardly have noticed her among the long grass; and she was so delicate and graceful that she quite seemed to belong to the place, almost as if she were one of the flowers.
Sylvie and Bruno
Dear Lord Illingworth is quite hopeless, Lady Stutfield.
Woman of No Importance
But, mind you, though Peter was so slow in going back to his mother, he was quite decided to go back.
The Little White Bird
Quite otherwise indeed, if I understood Miss Fairfax's opinion last night."
Emma
I have tried to get on a little better under Mrs General's instruction, and I hope I am not quite so dull as I used to be.
Little Dorrit
They were quite familiar objects to Maimie, but she had never known what they were for until to-night.
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
When she had had a headache in India she had done her best to see that everybody else also had a headache or something quite as bad.
Secret Garden
All was very quiet, and she went on again--not absolutely frightened, but a little quicker than before perhaps, and possibly not quite so much at her ease, for a check of that kind is startling.
Barnaby Rudge A Tale Of The Riots Of Eighty
All this while, Louisa had been passing on, so quiet and reserved, and so much given to watching the bright ashes at twilight as they fell into the grate, and became extinct, that from the period when her father had said she was almost a young woman - which seemed but yesterday - she had scarcely attracted his notice again, when he found her quite a young woman.
Hard Times
It was quite impossible to find language to express the degree of mental prostration to which such an adventurous wight would be reduced in the keen encounter with Tim Linkinwater, so Tim gave up the rest of his declaration in pure lack of words, and mounted his stool again.
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
But as that wouldn't do in Westminster Hall, and as it wouldn't look quite professional if they were seen by a client, they decamped.
David Copperfield
Lebedeff said this so seriously that the prince quite lost his temper with him.
The Idiot
"'Good-bye,' said little Hans, and he began to dig away quite merrily, he was so pleased about the wheelbarrow.
The Happy Prince and Other Tales
He had a nice little bow in his hand, but it was quite spoiled by the rain, and the tints of his many-colored arrows ran one into the other.
Andersens Fairy Tales
In his bed the writer rolled over on his side and lay quite still.
Winesberg Ohio