might/may as well

idiom

1

—used to say that something should be done or accepted because it cannot be avoided or because there is no good reason not to do it

You might as well tell them the truth.

We may as well begin now.

(informal) "Should we start now?" "Might as well."

2

—used to say that something else could have been done with the same result

The party was so dull that I might (just) as well have stayed home.

Examples of might/may as well in a Sentence

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The vastness of the stage, with its lofty view of a noisily appreciative crowd, gives way to the confines of a cell, so hushed and sealed off that it might as well be buried underground. —Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 12 July 2024

The speculation is that Democrats then might go along with reversing the rule, reasoning that Trump would scrap it anyhow and that the savings might as well be used on something. —Peter Sullivan, Axios, 11 July 2024

His long melancholy asides to friends might as well be paragraphs on a page. —Hazlitt, 10 July 2024

David Ignatius writes that those concerns might as well be written into the NATO charter. —Drew Goins, Washington Post, 9 July 2024