poles apart

English

Adjective

poles apart (not comparable)

(idiomatic) Totally opposite.
- 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court:
  She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.
- 1993, Immortality, resurrection, and the age of the universe: a kabbalistic view‎, page 31
  In a purely spiritual sense, the two are poles apart and without the material could never be brought together in a single entity.
- 2001, Karl Figlio, Psychoanalysis, science and masculinity‎, page 213
  At this level, science and magic are poles apart and yet they are the same.
- 2009, November 29, Times of India, Two cities, two lives
  Two city living however has its own flipside, not the least the difficulty straddling the two different cultures of two cities that are poles apart.

Translations

totally opposite

Chinese:
Mandarin: 完全相反 (wánquán xiāngfǎn), 天壤之別 (zh), 天壤之别 (zh) (tiānrǎngzhībié), 截然不同 (jiéránbùtóng)
Finnish: täysin vastakkainen
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Spanish: polos opuestos m pl

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