Sens: Allen Kelsey Grammer

n. Allen Kelsey Grammer, nom de naissance de Kelsey Grammer (né en 1955), acteur, producteur et réalisateur américain

tell from else Idiome

something else

so good as to be beyond description The movie was something else. It was the best movie I had seen in years.

something else again

a different kind of thing Working all day on Saturday is OK but working all day Sunday is something else again.

or else

if not；otherwise否则
Do what I tell you，or else you'll be sorry．照我的话做，否则你要后悔的。

sth else

Idiom(s): sth else

Theme: AMAZING

something wonderful; something extra special. (Informal.)
• Did you see her new car? That's really something else!
• John hit a hall yesterday that went out of the stadium and kept on going. He's something else!

put oneself in sb else's place

Idiom(s): put oneself in someone else's place AND put oneself in someone else's shoes

Theme: EMPATHY

to allow oneself to see or experience something from someone else's point of view.
• Put yourself in someone else's place, and see how it feels.
• I put myself in Tom's shoes and realized that I would have made exactly the same choice.

play sb off against sb else

Idiom(s): play sb off against sb else

Theme: MANIPULATION

to scheme in a manner that pits two of your adversaries against one another.
• Bill wanted to beat me up and so did Bob. I did some fast talking, and they ended up fighting with each other. I really played Bill off against Bob.
• The president played the House off against the Senate and ended up getting his own way.

name sb after sb else

Idiom(s): name someone after someone else AND name someone for someone else

Theme: NAME

to give someone (usually a baby) the name of another person.
• We named our baby after my aunt.
• My parents named me for my grandfather.

mistake sb for sb else

Idiom(s): mistake someone for someone else AND mix someone up with someone else

Theme: IDENTIFICATION

to confuse someone with someone else; to think that one person is another person.
• I'm sorry. I mistook you for John.
• Tom is always mistaking Bill for me. We don't look a thing alike, though.
• Try not to mix Bill up with Bob.

in sb else's shoes

Idiom(s): in someone else's shoes AND in someone else's place

Theme: EMPATHY

seeing or experiencing something from someone else's point of view.
• You might feel different if you were in her shoes.
• Pretend you're in Tom's place, and then try to figure out why he acts the way he does.

draw a line between sth and sth else

Idiom(s): draw a line between sth and sth else

Theme: DIFFERENCE

to separate two things; to distinguish or differentiate between two things.
• It's necessary to draw a line between bumping into people and striking them.
• It's very hard to draw the line between slamming a door and just closing it loudly.

tell (someone or something) from (someone or article else)

1. To be able to anticipate or analyze some affair as actuality audible and different compared to article else. It's actual difficult to acquaint the absolute paintings from the counterfeits, but there are a few things we can attending for to be sure. Because of my blush blindness, I can't acquaint shades of red from shades of green. The angel dressed so audibly that you couldn't acquaint her from an accustomed citizen.2. To be able to perceive, recognize, or accept article from some allotment or bulk of evidence. In this usage, the noun or pronoun amid "tell" and "from" is sometimes relocated to the end of the clause. What's wrong? I can acquaint you're agitated from the accent in your voice. Well, we can acquaint from these arrangement that the assemblage is affective appear the north.Learn more: something, tell

tell someone from someone else

and tell something from something elseto analyze one from another. I can't acquaint Chuck from Roger. They attending so abundant alike. I can't acquaint orange from yellow.Learn more: else, tell

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