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Difference between Something else and Something else again

something else

1. smth. of an altogether different kind:

  • I’ve been known to get pretty emotional at movies on sporadic occasions, but this is something else.

2. (coll.) said of a person or thing so good as to be beyond description:

  • That Rachel is something else, isn’t she? There’s some feeling in the community that she ought to join up permanently.

something else againis used as a more emphatic variant of something else 1:

  • Contract talks are usually contentious. But the bitterness that broke out at the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra was something else again.