make no odds

English

Verb

make no odds (third-person singular simple present makes no odds, present participle making no odds, simple past and past participle made no odds)

  1. (colloquial) To make no significant difference; to be all the same.
    • 1980, P. T. Geach, B. Geach, Logic Matters, page 7:
      In some contexts the difference makes no odds; it makes no odds whether we say "Tom kissed a girl" or "Tom kissed some girl", for "Tom kissed Mary or Kate" is the same in effect as "Tom kissed Mary or Tom kissed Kate".
    • 1984, Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy):
      Rain type 17 was a dirty blatter battering against his windscreen so hard that it didn't make much odds whether he had his wipers on or off.

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