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单词 to come to the same thing
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to come to the same thing
c. to come to the same thing and variants: to be equivalent in significance or effect, to amount to the same thing.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > be or become equal [verb (intransitive)] > be equivalent
amountc1390
to pass for (also as)1463
to come to one purpose1489
weigh1529
to pass muster1573
parallel1626
tantamount1628
to come to the same1643
coextenda1711
muster1820
1643 D. Digges Unlawfulnesse Subj. iii. 64 It will come to the same thing by undenyable deductions from his owne grounds.
1662 P. du Moulin tr. Novelty of Popery viii. ix. i. 668 What he saith, comes to the same thing that we say.
1741 G. Turnbull tr. J. G. Heineccius Methodical Syst. Universal Law I. i. iii. 62 Conformity to Reason, or which comes to the same thing, to our rational nature.
1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey I. 92 It comes to the same thing, said I.
1825 C. Waterton Wanderings in S. Amer. i. 12 It comes nearly to the same thing in the end.
1877 Pharmaceut. Jrnl. 6 Oct. 213/2 He would call it excess of income over expenditure, which came to much the same thing.
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 1297 With the squamosal or with the temporal, which comes to the same thing, the lower jaw or mandible articulates.
1965 B. Barry Polit. Argument (1990) i. 10 One may ‘appraise’ a person, which comes to much the same as ‘weighing him up’.
2001 J. Boyle Galloway Street 14 Most of our relations are not real relations either, though my mammy says it comes to the same thing.
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