a whole nother thing meaning
[American slang]
Rur. a completely different matter. (Often "corrected" to a whole other thing. The word nother is a shortening of another.)
Borrowing! That's a whole nother thing! I thought you said stealing!
Rur. a completely different matter. (Often "corrected" to a whole other thing. The word nother is a shortening of another.)
Borrowing! That's a whole nother thing! I thought you said stealing!
Examples
- This doesn't mean it will disappear from the language; we need lots of expressions we would rarely put into type, like a whole nother thing and put the groceries in the way back.
- If your character says " Avast there ye land-lubbers ! " a lot, you kinda get the idea that you have someone who is badly impersonating a pirate and if they say " Howdy Y'all, that's a whole nother thing " then you've probably got a Texan on your hands.
