poles apart | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)Totallyopposite.1935,George Goodchild, chapter 1, inDeath on the Centre Court:She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be keptpoles apartgave her an inexpressible thrill.1960February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, inTrains Illustrated, page96:As regards distance there is little to choose between them and until the recent diversions there was a marked similarity in their train services; but the resemblance ends there and in character the two lines arepoles apart.1993, Aryeh Kaplan, Yaakov Elman, Israel ben Gedaliah Lipschutz,Immortality, resurrection, and the age of the universe: a kabbalistic view‎[1], page31:In a purely spiritual sense, the two arepoles apartand without the material could never be brought together in a single entity.2001, Karl Figlio,Psychoanalysis, science and masculinity‎[2], page213:At this level, science and magic arepoles apartand yet they are the same.2009, November 29,Times of India, "Two cities, two lives"Two city living however has its own flipside, not the least the difficulty straddling the two different cultures of two cities that arepoles apart.

Examples:

EN: You know, Stretch, you and I are poles apart.
ES: Sabes, Stretch, tú y yo estamos en polos opuestos.
EN: Even at the beginning, Peter and I were poles apart.
ES: Incluso al principio, Peter y yo éramos polos opuestos.
EN: We're poles apart.
ES: Somos polos opuestos.
EN: - Because her family and our family, are poles apart!
ES: - ¡Porque su familia y nuestra familia, son polos opuestos!
EN: You mean we'd have to break the poles apart?
ES: Prefiero dormir. - ¡No! Yo adoro los deportes, soy todo juego.
EN: Pooja and you are poles apart!
ES: ¡Pooja y tú sois polos opuestos!
EN: Siblings, yet poles apart.
ES: Mira.
EN: Though they share the same room, they are poles apart
ES: Aunque comparten la habitación, son muy diferentes.
EN: They are poles apart.
ES: Son muy diferentes.
EN: We are identical twins... but we are poles apart.
ES: Somos gemelos idénticos... pero somos polos opuestos.
EN: And although these cars have so much in common, the McLaren and the Veyron are actually poles apart.
ES: Y aunque estos autos tienen bastante en común El McLaren y el Veyron son en realidad polos opuestos.
EN: We are poles apart.
ES: Somos polos opuestos.
EN: But you and love are poles apart!
ES: ¡Pero tú y el amor sois dos polos opuestos!
EN: The two men began poles apart.
ES: Los dos hombres comenzaron en polos opuestos.
EN: Your worlds are poles apart
ES: Vuestros mundos son dos polos opuestos.

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