# How to say "very different" English? #
【英语习语】a different kettle of fish
[Idiom Note] Kettle means "kettle", but the kettle here does not refer to a vessel used to boil water, but to a pot used to cook fish, which is a deep pan (as shown in the lower left picture), which has been mainly used to cook fish since the seventeenth century, such as salmon.
The new proposal is quite a different kettle of fish from the last one. The new proposal and the old proposal are two completely different things.
The English idiom first appeared in the 1847 British newspaper Morning Advertiser: In plain English, a master is responsible for the acts of his servants, and he must either be sent to the right-about by the railway authorities hereafter, or boil a very different kettle of fish. From this point of view, the kettle here is indeed a deep pan for cooking fish, not a kettle! Also, do you know what "diametrically" means in Chinese? It means "as clearly demarcated as east and west are cut off", from Song Lu Jiuyuan's "With Wang Shunbo": "From the point of view of those who start from where they teach, then the distinction between Confucianism and interpretation, the difference between public and private righteousness and interests, the judgment is completely distinct, and there are people who cannot be people." ”
