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same difference

No difference at all, the same thing, as in She's my sister, or stepsister—same difference. This jocular colloquial phrase dates from about 1940.

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identical, comparable, corresponding, equivalent, proportionate, balanced, commensurate, equal, tantamount, interchangeable, exact, indistinguishable, like, double, clone, duplicate, look-alike, Xerox, dupe, twin

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