potayto, potahto
English
Interjection
potayto, potahto!
- (informal) That is a distinction without a difference!
- 2001 August 31, Robert Hickey <robhic@bellsouth.net>, "Re: Vegetarian (fruitarian?) all raw food diet - Ca-AEP", alt.support.mult-sclerosis, Usenet,
- "He says he has never had a **remission**. You thought he was being smug about 'lack of relapse(s)'."
- I think it's more like "potato - potahto." No remission to me says unchanging and, hence, no relapse.
- 2002 July 2, Dave Witzel <dwitzel@nyc.roadrunner.com>, "Re: beers in NYC". alt.beer, Usenet,
- "Who's whining, pissant? I'm berating!"
- Potato, potahto.
- 2004, Elaine Cunningham, Shadows In The Darkness, Tor/Forge, →ISBN, page 49,
- What he liked to call helpful, however, was more like Gwen's idea of controlling and manipulative. Potayto, potahto, and don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.
- 2007 October 7, David Rush <kumoyuki@gmail.com>, "Re: Nested Lambda function gives error in common lisp, guile, emacs lisp but works in scheme. Why?", comp.lang.scheme, Usenet,
- "In Common Lisp (and presumably Emacs Lisp), functions are as first-class as in Scheme and elsewhere. You just have to do a bit extra to use them as first-class values, that's all."
- Potayto, potahto. That 'bit extra' is what makes them 'not first-class denotable' in my book.
- 2001 August 31, Robert Hickey <robhic@bellsouth.net>, "Re: Vegetarian (fruitarian?) all raw food diet - Ca-AEP", alt.support.mult-sclerosis, Usenet,
Synonyms
Translations
to suggest a distinction without a difference — see tomayto, tomahto
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