whole new ballgame, a

A completely altered situation, as in It will take a year to reassign the staff, and by then some will have quit and we'll have a whole new ballgame . This expression comes from baseball, where it signifies a complete turn of events, as when the team that was ahead falls behind. [Colloquial; 1960s]

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Devyn	DEV-in	English (Modern)
Reto	-	German (Swiss)
Tommie	TAHM-ee	English
Liberty	LIB-ər-tee	English
Philippos	-	Ancient Greek, Biblical Greek
Sebastian	ze-BAHS-tee-ahn (German), sə-BAS-chən (English), se-BAHS-tyahn (Polish), SE-bahs-tee-ahn (Finnish)	German, English, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Polish, Finnish, Romanian