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Idiom: A different/new ball game
I’m writing this post on Friday, November 6th, so by the time you read this, you may know who the next American president is.
It could be Biden, or it may remain Trump, but either way, it’s a whole new ballgame.
That means the situation is going to be totally different from what it was before.
Imagine that if you thought Trump was unbearable before, he’s going to be insufferable now.
Can you visualize FOUR MORE YEARS?
On second thought, if Biden is the one sworn in on January 20th, I think I’m going to miss good ol’ Trumpy.
He is not a boring person and can always be counted on to post an interesting spelling mistake on Twitter.
Now a Biden presidency is going to be a different ballgame for the entire world.
First of all, presidential Twitter usage will drop, and reporters will finally be able to achieve a full night’s rest without being interrupted by ALL CAP madness on Trump’s Twitter feed.
Yes, it’ll be a whole new ballgame for sure.
In case you are still not sure what the phrase a different or new ballgame means, it means that a situation will be completely different from what it used to be or what you are expecting it to be.
For example, moving overseas is a very exciting and wonderful experience, but it’s never exactly what you think it will be like.
Living in a new country is a different ball game, for sure.
Depending on which country you move to, the people may not even play ball at all.
‘Ball,’ you see, refers to ‘baseball,’ and if you move to New Zealand, they play rugby with an oval ball, which adds a whole new dimension to the term a different ball game.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
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On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 70.
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