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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
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make distinctions without a difference
What does the idiom mean?Can you help me?
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Which idiom? Your thread title is not an idiom-- actually, I don't even understand what it is trying to say.
- Which idiom?
- Your thread title is not an idiom-- actually, I don't even understand what it is trying to say.
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Which idiom? Your thread title is not an idiom-- actually, I don't even understand what it is trying to say.
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"a distinction without a difference"
This is a case where two things are a little different, that is, they are distinct, but the slight difference (or distinction) "makes no difference", that is, the slight distinction has no importance; nothing of any significance hinges on the distinction. Making a distinction without a difference is pointing out that two things are unlike in s
This is a case where two things are a little different, that is, they are distinct, but the slight difference (or distinction) "makes no difference", that is, the slight distinction has no importance; nothing of any significance hinges on the distinction. Making a distinction without a difference is pointing out that two things are unlike in s
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Hi,
Perhaps you might be interested in the idiom 'He likes to split hairs'.
Clive
Perhaps you might be interested in the idiom 'He likes to split hairs'.
Clive
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