one and the same
idiom
: one person or thing and not two
The restaurant's owner and chef are one and the same (person).
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The two showers are essentially one and the same; Earth intersects a single, broad stream of meteoroids at two places in its orbit on opposite sides of the sun.
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Joe Rao, Space.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Jauan Jennings and the 49ers are one and the same — injured and fighting the odds even with a 4-2 record after a 30-19 road loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Sunday.
—Jerry McDonald, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025
Next week sees another one of those rare-ish SNL occasions when the host and the musical guest are one and the same — in this case Sabrina Carpenter.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 11 Oct. 2025
Presenting Linda with two open wounds—one in the ceiling, and one in her child’s flesh—the film suggests, with sly wit and bristling optimism, that the solutions to both problems might be one and the same.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025
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Joe Rao, Space.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Jauan Jennings and the 49ers are one and the same — injured and fighting the odds even with a 4-2 record after a 30-19 road loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Sunday.
—Jerry McDonald, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025
Next week sees another one of those rare-ish SNL occasions when the host and the musical guest are one and the same — in this case Sabrina Carpenter.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 11 Oct. 2025
Presenting Linda with two open wounds—one in the ceiling, and one in her child’s flesh—the film suggests, with sly wit and bristling optimism, that the solutions to both problems might be one and the same.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025
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“One and the same.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/one%20and%20the%20same. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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