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- far cry from
far cry from
far cry from something
a thing that is very different from something else. What you did was a far cry from what you said you were going to do. The song they played was a far cry from what I call music.
Common Names:
| Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
|---|
| Toon | | TO:N | Dutch |
| Hypatos | | - | Ancient Greek |
| Masha | | - | Russian |
| Merlin | | MUR-lin (English) | Arthurian Romance, English |
| Jolanta | | yaw-LAHN-tah (Polish) | Polish, Lithuanian |
| Luitger | | - | German (Archaic) |