ALL THE SAME

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Meaning:

Despite anything to the contrary (usually preceding a concession)

Example:

granted that it is dangerous, all the same I still want to go

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Adverbs

If you look at a group of people who are all the same age, some may be perfectly healthy while others are not.

(Older biologic age linked to elevated breast cancer risk, National Institutes of Health)

Intriguingly, they are all the same species, called Dinizia excelsa, known in Portuguese as Angelim vermelho.

(Expedition finds tallest tree in the Amazon, University of Cambridge)

But you must come up and tack on my patterns all the same.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Justice or injustice, it was all the same, he must take all things from the hands of his own gods.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

“Doctor Strong, of course,” returned the other; “I call him the old Doctor; it's all the same, you know.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It's all the same, you know, she and I being one.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It is all the same to me what I eat.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

"But there is life upon the plateau all the same," his colleague replied in triumph.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is most important, all the same.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It’s all the same to me.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)