something else

English

Noun

something else (uncountable)

1. (informal) Something exceptional, out of the ordinary, unusual.

   My mother's cooking is something else!

   • 2010, Mary Ann Hutchison, Moochi’s Mariachis, Pen & Publish, →ISBN, page 42:

     Before Ladybug could answer, Chico said, “Man, you’re something else. Do you really think that tall and skinny is good looking? […] ”

2. (informal, sarcastic) Used to express shocked disappointment

   You mean to tell me you let those kids walk all the way home? At night in the rain? Man, you're really something else.

Translations

• Note: These translations are adjectives, not nouns.

exceptional, out of the ordinary, unusual

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 特別出色的／特别出色的, 特别出色的 (tèbié chūsè de)

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} nog 's wat anders
• Finnish: omaa luokkaansa (in a class of its own)
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• German: ^{(please verify)} etwas anderes
• Macedonian: ^{(please verify)} нешто посебно (nešto posebno)
• Russian: не́что осо́бенное (néčto osóbennoje), слов нет (slov net), что-то с чем-то (što-to s čem-to)
• Spanish: palabras mayores
• Ukrainian: винятковий (vynjatkovyj), незвичайний (nezvyčajnyj), надзвичайний (nadzvyčajnyj)