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• like chalk and cheese

語源

Attested in variant form since 1393. The surface of some cheeses, particularly unaged ones, looks similar to chalk – white, crumbling – but in substance cheese is much softer than chalk.

Interesting to note that lime chalk and cottage cheese forms a glue-like material used in the restoration of ancient half-timbered houses, perhaps suggesting an alternative original meaning.

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名詞

chalk and cheese (uncountable)

1. (Britain, New Zealand, idiomatic) Said of things that are very different, though possibly superficially alike.

同意語

• apples and oranges
• night and day, day and night

参照

• "chalk and cheese", World Wide Words, Michael Quinion