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quite something
Something particularly noteworthy, remarkable, interesting, special, or impressive. Wow, this new car of yours is quite something! It felt like quite something being invited to the party, considering how new I was to the team.
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quite something
something very good or remarkable. You should see their new house. It's quite something. Meg's mother has bought a new hat for the wedding and it's quite something.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
- (something) is one thing, (something else) is (quite) another
- batting on a sticky wicket
- be (batting) on a sticky wicket
- be in a sticky situation
- be not all there
- be not all/quite there
- be quite something
- big as life
- feel for
- have a pair
- I didn't (quite) catch that
- I didn't (quite) catch that (last) remark
- I'm having quite a time
- in a sticky situation
- it's one thing to (do sth), it's another thing to (do sth else)
- it's one thing to (do sth), it's quite another to (do sth else)
- nervy
- not (quite) right in the head
- not quite
- not quite the thing
- not suit (one)
- on a sticky wicket
- quite
- quite a
- quite a (something)
- quite a bit
- quite a change
- quite a few
- quite a lot
- quite a number
- quite a ways
- quite a while
- quite a/some somebody/something
- quite so
- quite some (something)
- quite some time
- quite something
- quite the (most something)
- quite the best, the worst, etc. something
- quite the contrary
- quite the little
- quite the little (something)
- speaking quite frankly
- This doesn't quite suit me