be foreign to sb

Frequency: 7.545.0 per million words

Used to state that something is unfamiliar or not typical for someone.

foreignVERB + foreign

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Examples (10)

  • This kind of attitude is completely foreign to her.
  • The procedure is quite foreign to most newcomers in our lab.
  • Open-office culture is utterly foreign to remote engineers like him.
  • The concept was entirely foreign to me when I first arrived.
  • The idea of tipping is quite foreign to many visitors.
  • Bureaucratic small talk is very foreign to our CEO.
  • Meditation before meetings will be totally foreign to some teams.
  • These expectations have been entirely foreign to our interns so far.
  • Your informal tone is quite foreign to the board.
  • Until last year, financial jargon was completely foreign to me.