Chalk and cheese
Thanks for your response to my post.
I know the idiom 'be like chalk and cheese' means 'completely different'.
But do you have an idiom or a proverb like 'I talk of chalk, you talk of cheese' means 'I said something else, you are responding something else'? If not, do know know any idiom or proverb in British English that explains the meaning (italicised) I cited above?
Thanks.
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). I'm not sure if it's exactly what you want, but an expression that comes to mind is "talk at cross purposes". If two people are "talking at cross purposes", it means that they are misunderstanding each other, so one person is talking about one thing, or is understanding something one way, while the other person is talking about something different, or is understanding something a different way.
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- I'm not sure if it's exactly what you want, but an expression that comes to mind is "talk at cross purposes".
- If two people are "talking at cross purposes", it means that they are misunderstanding each other, so one person is talking about one thing, or is understanding something one way, while the other person is talking about something different, or is understanding something a different way.
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sundarnaz 'I talk of chalk, you talk of cheese'
This isn't used (though it's an interesting idea!). I'm not sure if it's exactly what you want, but an expression that comes to mind is "talk at cross purposes". If two people are "talking at cross purposes", it means that they are misunderstanding each other, so one person is talking about one thing, or is un
0I wonder whether "to get the wrong end of the stick" could be somehow used here. What I mean is the situation when each side of the argument or discussion gets the wrong end of the stick.
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