chalk and cheese
Nothing in common
Chalk and cheese describes two things that are fundamentally different despite superficial similarities.
The phrase appears almost exclusively in British English, usually in the construction as different as chalk and cheese or like chalk and cheese: The twins look identical but their personalities are chalk and cheese.
- day and nightBoth light and darkness
- night and dayTotal contrast or constantly
- dissimilarNot similar
- apples and orangesIncomparable items idiom
- oil and waterProverbial unmixable substances
worlds apart · black and white · east and west · divergence · polar opposites · unlike · disparity · incompatibility · difference · square peg in a round hole · contrast · mismatch · odd couple · strange bedfellows · juxtaposition · antithesis · fish out of water · hot and cold
- incompatibilityoil and water, apples and oranges, mismatch, clash, mismatched
- oppositesopposite, opposites, antonym, antonyms, inverse
chalk and cheesepeas in a pod
Extremely similar things
two of a kind · cut from the same cloth · birds of a feather · identical twins · carbon copy
chalk, cheese, chalks, chalky, chalkiness, chalkboard, cheeses, cheesy, cheesiness