same difference

same difference
same difference spoken phrase
used for saying that two things have the same effect or importance

‘I didn’t tell him to leave – I just suggested it was getting late.’ ‘Same difference.’

Thesaurus: samesynonym
Main entry: same

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informal used to express the speaker's belief that two or more things are essentially the same, in spite of apparent differences

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same difference
chiefly US informal
— used to say that two things are not really different in any important way

“They lost 100 games last year.” “Actually, they only lost 96 games.” “Same difference. The point is, they were awful.”

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same difference — see difference
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same ˈdifference idiom
(informal) used to say that you think the differences between two things are not important

‘That's not a xylophone, it's a glockenspiel.’ ‘Same difference.’

Main entry:differenceidiom

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