What difference does it make?
What difference does it make?
Will the given thing, decision, or situation actually matter or cause any appreciable difference? A: "Please make your bed in the morning before you leave for school." B: "What difference does it make? I'll only mess it up again each night when I go to bed." A: "So I decided to paint the room red instead of orange—what difference does it make?" B: "Because the red doesn't match with any of the furniture we picked out, you clod!"
See also: difference, does, what
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
What difference does it make?
Does it really matter?; Does it cause any trouble? What if I choose to leave home? What difference does it make? So Jane dropped out of the club. What difference does it make?
See also: difference, does, what
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
- very little in it
- come to nothing
- amount to nothing
- stand off from
- stand off from (someone or something)
- make (one's) bed (up)
- make bed
- make bed (up
- make up (one's) bed
- make up the bed