Idiom
same difference
Meaning
A distinction which makes no difference; a distinction which does not matter.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Call it a soda or a pop, it is the same difference.”
“You can walk or take the bus, but it is the same difference since both take twenty minutes.”
“Whether the policy is labeled as a reform or a revision, the public views it as the same difference, given that the underlying issues remain unaddressed.”
Examples
simple
“Call it a soda or a pop, it is the same difference.”
contextual
“You can walk or take the bus, but it is the same difference since both take twenty minutes.”
complex
“Whether the policy is labeled as a reform or a revision, the public views it as the same difference, given that the underlying issues remain unaddressed.”
Origin
A twentieth-century colloquialism formed as a blend of the phrases "same thing" and "no difference."
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