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one and the same
Idioms and Phrases
Identical, as in Gloria's grandfather had been, at one and the same time, a physician at the court and a general in the army . This expression is an emphatic form of “the same.” [Mid-1800s]Example Sentences
As such, Cave Canem prides itself on being a place where belonging and community are one and the same.
“I go for emancipation of all kinds,” Rose said, “white and black, man and woman. Humanity’s children are, in my estimation, all one and the same family, inheriting the same earth; therefore there should be no slaves of any kind among them.”
His work and home selves are one and the same.
Ms Itooka was born in May 1908 – six years before the World War One and the same year that the Ford Model T car was launched in the US.
And for Miyazaki in particular, art and life are nearly one and the same as we come to learn in this year’s documentary that sneakily landed on Max this summer, “Hayao Miyazaki and The Heron.”
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