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