poles apart
Example Sentences
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And, when they do talk, their negotiating styles are poles apart.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2026
"Both, poles apart in genre, did great business," he said.
From Barron's ● Jan. 25, 2026
The tour was poles apart from luxury safaris with furnished tents and balloon rides over the Serengeti.
From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2023
Avocados are “perceived as something healthy, and the contrast to what it is actually doing” to the environment and society, “you couldn’t get further, it’s poles apart, it’s absolutely not,” McMahon said.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2022
Why he is finishing poles apart from where he commenced!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 22, 1890 by Various
