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Idiom

much of a muchness

Meaning

Of two or more things, having little difference of any significance between them.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“These two laptops are much of a muchness.”

“I couldn't decide between the two apartments since they were much of a muchness.”

“Critics argued that the rival films, for all their pretensions to originality, were much of a muchness — both slick, forgettable, and utterly safe.”

Examples

simple

“These two laptops are much of a muchness.”

contextual

“I couldn't decide between the two apartments since they were much of a muchness.”

complex

“Critics argued that the rival films, for all their pretensions to originality, were much of a muchness — both slick, forgettable, and utterly safe.”

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