same difference
Distinction without importance
Same difference dismisses a distinction as trivial or irrelevant—two things may differ technically, but the difference doesn't matter: I said Tuesday, you said Wednesday—same difference, we're both wrong.
The phrase is deliberately paradoxical, acknowledging a difference while waving it away.
- likeComparable to, or enjoy
- identicalExactly the same
- equivalentSame in value or function
- comparableAble to be likened
- duplicateExact replica of original
analogous · oxymoron · idiom · ditto · double · colloquialism · paradox · sarcasm · contradiction · tautology · potayto, potahto · irony · corresponding · indistinguishable · interchangeable · six of one · casual speech · phraseology
- indifferenceapathy, unconcern, disinterest, nonchalance, disregard
- oxymoronsbittersweet, deafening silence, pretty ugly, living dead, act naturally
- Redundanciestautology, pleonasm, redundancy, redundant phrase, added bonus
- dullnessboring, boredom, monotony, dullness, banality
same differenceworld of difference
Enormous meaningful distinction
night and day · apples and oranges · game-changer · dealbreaker · miles apart
same differencepedantry
Excessive concern with minor rules
exactitude · hair-splitting · actually · the devil is in the details · more precisely
same, sameness, difference, different, differ, differs, differed, differing, differently