Meaning of same, same, but different | Babel Free

Definitions

Almost the same, but with some differences.

idiomatic, informal

Examples

“A day before I'd stepped off a train in Vladivostok in snow and ice, still hung over from the vodka hug-fest with the silver-toothed gangsters, India and Afghanistan just over my shoulder, on my mind, and then, wham, a taxi through warm L.A. -- "Fuck, man, look at that traffic!" said the driver, who'd emigrated to the U.S. from Jordan when he was sixteen -- and I was plunging into a place I hadn't seen in months. As a T-shirt in India read, "Same, same, but different."”

“I have pets too, but not nearly as many as you! Same, same but different!”

“So we are same same but different as they say in some parts of the world.”

“Nothing MOVES from one level to the next without you ACTIVATING the market and the prospects. As the people say in Cambodia; Same, same but DIFFERENT.”

CEFR level