The phrase "same difference"...what does it mean? Can you think of any other confusing or useless phrases?

From Urban dictionary : Another way of saying "whatever". It is often confused with "same thing", but you're really saying "OK, I admit that they're not the same thing, but they're not different enough for me to really care about it."

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One from Shakespeare himself ... Parting is such "sweet sorrow."

Yes.   It makes perfect sense.  When someone tries to explain two qualities that are dissimilar and they in fact are NOT, that response is perfect.

So, if I tell you that my husband is not mean but he tends to be a bully, the logical reply would be?  Same difference.

If the difference is, in fact, identical (or seemingly),  there is no difference because the difference is exactly the same in both examples.

This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at February 14, 2017 11:15 AM MST

It means there is no significant difference between two choices.  It was an expression which really upset the most stupid person in all history, my father. "Christ I hate that goddamn expression! How can a thing be the same and different?"

Yes, Make America Great Again, that's pretty confusing and useless.

My mother would always tell me "you could if you wanted to.."

Ok mom. How do I make myself WANT to?

One that puzzles me is the Americanism "I could care less" compared to the British "I couldn't care less." The first make it clear that if you could care less then you must still care a little bit. 

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