come to the same thing
come to the same thing
To be the same or nearly the same as something else, especially after consideration. When you get down to it, downloading pirated music for free online and stealing CDs from a store really come to the same thing.
See also: come, same, thing
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
aˌmount/ˌcome to the same ˈthing
it does not matter how something happens or is done, the result in the end is the same: Whether it was your fault or his fault, it still amounts to the same thing. My car’s wrecked.See also: amount, come, same, thing
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
come to the same thing, to
To make no difference. “It all comes to the same thing at the end,” wrote Robert Browning (“Any Wife to Her Husband,” 1842), the words of a dying wife concerning the likelihood that her widowed husband will remarry. It also has been put as amount to or add up to the same thing.
See also: come, same
The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
- come to the same thing, to
- out of consideration of (something)
- out of consideration
- consideration
- in consideration of
- in consideration of (something)
- in consideration of something
- throw (something) in(to) the pot
- out of consideration for (someone or something)
- puzzle out (something)