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whole new ball game

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a whole new ball game

a completely different situation, often one which is difficult or which you know very little about. We'd done a lot of climbing in Scotland, but the Himalayas were a whole new ball game.

See also: ball, game, new, whole

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whole kaboodle
whole kit and caboodle

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