Cheese and chalk what does it mean

What he does in public and how in acts in private are as different as chalk and cheese. Aside their names, the two teachers had nothing in common and could be said to be as different as chalk and cheese. England in the Summer and England in the Winter are as different as chalk and cheese. Origin This phrase originated in the 13 th century in the United Kingdom. Idiom of the Day bite the dust Meaning: to fall to the ground Example: The soldier bit the dust after a very long fight and even at that he managed to take many enemy soldiers with him.

None of these is convincing and they clearly owe more to marketing than to etymology. So, how did the phrase come about? There must have been a time in the development of English when we had no standard phrase to express the idea that two things were 'as different as X and Y'. When someone coined such a phrase, and that someone may well have been Gower in , clearly he needed candidates for the roles of X and Y.

In the second dialogue, two coworkers are discussing the needs of their two major clients. Job: We have two major clients. Job: So, as you know, the first company is a very old, respectable institution, so they like their ads to be elegant and understated. This other company is totally different. They like their ads to be edgy and impossible to ignore. They are as different as chalk and cheese.