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In a different league?

If you play or follow sports, for example, you’ll be able to get the hang of it easily. A sports league is a group of teams of players of similar age, ability who play regularly together. Amongst soccer leagues that the typical Chinese TV viewer follows are, for example, English Premier League, La Liga (Spanish Premier League), Bundesliga (German League) and, of course, the Chinese Premier League.

But the Chinese football league, of course, is not in the same league as the others. I don’t think it controversial to remark that the Chinese players are much inferior in quality.

Still, the Chinese media, dominated by officials who insist on praise rather than criticism, may sometimes find it necessary to re-work that statement and say that even though European football is in a different league from our own, ours is where the room for improvement is greatest.

Hurrah!

Anyways, when you say something is in a different league from, or not in the same league as others, you mean to say they’re unparalleled in number, size, quality, etc. In other words, they’re much better than average, or worse.

Here are media examples for you:

1. not in the same league:

Plug in the words “India” and “superpower” into an Internet search engine and it’s happy to oblige - with 1.3 million hits. I confess that I did not check each one, but I suspect that almost all of these entries date from the last couple of years.