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same difference
Idioms and Phrases
No difference at all, the same thing, as in She's my sister, or stepsister—same difference . This jocular colloquial phrase dates from about 1940.Example Sentences
They found the same difference in shape between Earth lakes known to have been eroded by waves and lakes affected by uniform erosion, such as dissolving limestone.
“You call it rent, I call it compensation. Same difference.”
Ayla’s adopted father, the Clan’s holy man, sees the same difference, but with sorrow and love: “He could make no quantum leaps, no intuitive strokes of genius. His mind, he knew, was more powerful than hers by far; more intelligent perhaps. But his genius was of a different nature. … In her, he sensed the youth, the vitality of a newer form.”
“Same difference in the end,” says Agent Fiona.
Back in 2007 brother and sister duo Same Difference made it to that year's X Factor final.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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