one and the same

O o

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- UK Pronunciation
- UK IPA
- [wuhn and stressed th ee seym]
- /wʌn ænd stressed ði seɪm/
- /wʌn ənd ðə seɪm/

Definition of one and the same words

phrase one and the same When two or more people or things are thought to be separate and you say that they are one and the same, you mean that they are in fact one single person or thing. 0

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A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 92% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.

Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

co-ordinate — If you co-ordinate an activity, you organize the various people and things involved in it.
fifty-fifty — equally good and bad, likely and unlikely, favorable and unfavorable, etc.: a fifty-fifty chance of winning.
identical — similar or alike in every way: The two cars are identical except for their license plates.
lookalike — a person or thing that looks like or closely resembles another; double.

according — in proportion; in relation
correspondent — A correspondent is a newspaper or television journalist, especially one who specializes in a particular type of news.
ditto — the aforesaid; the above; the same (used in accounts, lists, etc., to avoid repetition). Symbol: ″. Abbreviation: do. Compare ditto mark.
equal — Being the same in quantity, size, degree, or value.
identified — to recognize or establish as being a particular person or thing; verify the identity of: to identify handwriting; to identify the bearer of a check.

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