a far cry from

8. PHRASE : v-link PHR, PHR n
Something that is a far cry from something else is very different from it.

• Their lives are a far cry from his own poor childhood.

... Cobuild

• What you did was a far cry from what you said you were going to do.
• The song they played was a far cry from what I call music.

... McGraw-Hill_American Idioms, http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/far+cry+from