One-and-the-same meaning

(idiomatic) The same person or thing. Used to emphasize the identity or equivalence of two things.

Are the beautiful and the good one and the same? / Indeed, they are one and the same thing.

It's almost like there's one electron in two places at one and the same time.

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One-and-the-same Sentence Examples

  • Maybe they're one and the same.

  • "Every man's own satisfaction" Tucker holds to be the ultimate end of action; and satisfaction or pleasure is one and the same in kind, however much it may vary in degree.

  • This consists of a receiving antenna similar to the sending antenna, and in any wireless telegraph station it is usual to make the one and the same antenna do duty as a receiver or sender by switching it over from one apparatus to the other.

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