c'est autre chose

[ se toh-truh shohz ]

French.

1. that is different.

Word History and Origins

Origin of c'est autre chose¹

Literally, “that is another thing”

Example Sentences

L'union des nations ne souffre pas de difficultés sur la carte géographique; mais dans la réalité, c'est autre chose; il y a des nations immiscibles....

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All this is not impossible for a strong man in good health; for a prisoner, exhausted by fourteen years' captivity in a dungeon—c'est autre chose.

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I want them very much indeed, privately, but for the academy—c’est autre chose.

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"Le cur� de Suzanne, c'est autre chose," she reflected, for though technically a soldier was he not a brancardier rescuing the wounded?

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But you—c'est autre chose—monsieur est bien range—an artist perhaps for all that—'e see me dance and think perhaps, 'Voyons—she cannot dance at all—nor sing—nor nozzings.

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