amount to the same thing

Idioms  

1. Also, come to the same thing. Make no difference, be the same, as in Since it's supposed to rain all day, whether I go outdoors now or later will amount to the same thing, or Paying in cash or with a credit card, it comes to the same thing.

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Example Sentences

They give different reasons but the actions of Ms Sturgeon and Mr Jack amount to the same thing — both deleted messages which they knew a public inquiry would want to see.

From BBC • Feb. 2, 2024

When Wynette and Jones are together, no one else matters, and the series’s best scenes show them flirting or singing together, which amount to the same thing.

From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2022

There are two definitions of existential threat, though they often amount to the same thing.

From The Guardian • Apr. 26, 2020

By fate or happenstance — in fiction, of course, where coincidence is a tool, they amount to the same thing — Dud runs out of gas in front of the local Lynx lodge, Lodge 49.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 5, 2018

I have come to understand, however, that the illusion of perfect control can amount to the same thing.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart