не чета

• НЕ ЧЕТА кому-чему{{}}

[NP; Invar; subj-compl with быть (subj: usu. human, occas. any common noun); if subj: human, indir obj is also human etc]

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⇒ a person, thing etc is significantly better (with regard to some quality, some characteristic, social status, educational background etc) than another person, thing etc (may refer to a potential spouse):

- X Y-y не чета{{}}≈ X is a cut above Y;

- X (completely) outclasses Y;

- Y is no match for X;

- there's no comparing Y to X;

- Y is not X's equal;

- X is not like Y.

     ♦ Боже мой, думал Михаил, сколько у них было надежд, когда Лукашина председателем назначили! Вот, думали, дождались хозяина. Этот не чета Першину. Этот колхоз поведёт (Абрамов 1). My God, thought Mikhail, what hopes they'd had when they appointed Lukashin as Chairman! Now we've got a real boss, they had thought. This one's a good cut above Pershin. This one'll steer the kolkhoz (1a).

     ♦ Вот настоящий мужчина, подумал я, настоящий герой, не чета... этому дешевому московскому сороду (Аксёнов 6). Now there's a real man, I thought, a real hero who completely outclasses...all that cheap Moscow riffraff (6a).

     ♦ [Барон (Насте):] Ты должна понимать, что я - не чета тебе! Ты... мразь! (Горький 3). [В. (to Nastya):] You have to understand... you're not my equal. You're - dirt under my feet! (3b).

     ♦ Короче говоря, важный был человек Кириленко, не нам с вами чета (Войнович 1). In short, Kirilenko was an important man, not like you and me (1a).