worlds away

worlds away

Very different from something else. This new school is worlds away from the old one I taught at. For one, the kids actually listen!
See also: away, world
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • be worlds away
  • be worlds/a world away
  • be a world away
  • come away with
  • come away with (one)
  • come away
  • draw away
  • be light years away from
  • do away with
  • do away with (someone, something, or oneself)
References in periodicals archive
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Princess Diana's Engagement Interview Was 'Worlds Away' From Meghan, Kate's
The New Zealand-born filmmaker -- who previously directed the first two movies in the Shrek and Chronicles of Narnia franchises -- visited the ninth Dubai International Film Festival at Madinat Jumeirah to discuss Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away 3D.
A combination of danger and beauty
James Cameron's 3D fantasy Cirque de Soleil: Worlds Away is just a taste of what's in store at this year's Dubai International Film Festival.
DIFF announces Cinema of the World
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If you are looking for a chic side-table for your home, you might just find it in one of the unique Worlds Away outlets in Memphis, Tennessee, known as Worlds Apart.
Not a world away
Today's church wrestles hard with issues of discerning the will of God in a cultural context that is worlds away from that in which the Bible was written.
Fifth Sunday of Easter: May 6, 2007
Though it might be described as the works canteen, it is, however, worlds away from the dreary hangars of industrial folk memory.
Barkow Leibinger: dining hall, Ditzingen, Germany
The film and the rough draft share many parallels in plot, but the final result is worlds away from what was initially written.
Transamerica and me: writer Katherine Connella remembers coming out as intersexed to her filmmaker friend and housemate Duncan Tucker--not realizing at the time that she would inspire him to write and direct the award-winning indie hit Transamerica
The Sadie Cove Wilderness Lodge, only 10 miles as the crow flies from the fishing village of Homer, was worlds away from the rat race I was leaving behind for a week.
Treading lightly in Alaska: living it up in Sadie Cove
The flames in these paintings mirror those in the camper photographs, but here--unlike elsewhere in the show--Fischer's subject seems hackneyed, referencing a notion of '60s cool worlds away from Smithson's.
Rob Fischer: Cohan and Leslie
When she called with the news, I was sitting in a house near a beach, worlds away from the gritty city and the daily grind.
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Europe was just an hour-long flight from Sarajevo, but worlds away.
Trees for Sarajevo
This latest project, however, is worlds away from the lotus-eating world of holiday homes for Lima's elite.
Barclay & Crousse: community church, Santa Cruz de Asia, Peru