FAR CRY FROM (SOMETHING), FAT CAT, FEATHER IN (ONE’S) CAP: American English Idioms #68
FAR CRY FROM (SOMETHING) The phrase “far cry from” is an idiomatic expression meaning “very different.” For example, “the political climate in the US is a far cry from the stable democracy we want to emulate. A far cry from something idiom is a situation in which one thing is completely different from another, such…