built different
Meaning: Uniquely talented or operating by a different standard than ordinary people.
Language: English
Literally: (Already vivid in English)
Category: Daily Life
Origin: A modern slang phrase, popularized in hip-hop and social media, suggesting someone is constructed or made differently from the norm.
More idioms — Daily Life
- green fingers — A natural talent for growing plants successfully.
- on blast — Being publicly shamed or criticized, especially on social media.
- train wreck — A spectacular, inevitable disaster that is witnessed by many people.
- rock the boat — To disrupt the status quo or challenge established conventions and rules.
- above the salt — Of high social rank, importance, or honor.
- break the bank — To win or spend so much money that a casino or financial institution loses its entire ava…
More English idioms
- turn up the heat — To make a situation more intense, uncomfortable, or urgent.
- chase a rainbow — To pursue something that is impossible or unrealistic to attain.
- body English — Subtle body movements a person makes to coax a moving object toward a desired direction,…
- break the mold — To abandon convention and do something radically new or different.
- hoist by one's own petard — To be harmed or destroyed by one's own trap or scheme meant to injure someone else.
- sleep with the fishes — To be dead, with one's body disposed of in the ocean or a large body of water.
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