SAME (phrases)

In this post, we are looking for advanced phrases with the word ‘same‘.  For example:

It‘s the same old story.
The rich get richer

and the most vulnerable in our country suffer.

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1 SAME (DA) 9442876

A search in iWeb corpus for: * * same_DA * *

1 AT THE SAME TIME, 242223 B1 phrase in the English Vocabulary Profile.

At the same time, we are doing business with the very same government that is flooding our streets with cocaine.

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2 AT THE SAME TIME. 185792
3 AT THE SAME TIME AS 38091
4 IN THE SAME WAY AS 27695
5 IN THE SAME WAY THAT 24899 (C1 adverbial phrase meaning “similarly”)

But don’t you think it would be wonderful if there was someone who I could care about in the same way that I do about you?

6 IS THE SAME AS THE 22982
7 IN THE SAME WAY, 17572
8 IN THE SAME WAY. 16262
9 AT THE SAME TIME THE 15497
10 IN THE SAME MANNER AS 14936
11 . THE SAME GOES FOR 14585 (B1 pronoun)

The same goes for Josh.

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12 . THE SAME IS TRUE 14404
13 AT THE SAME TIME AND 13975
14 DO THE SAME. 13585
15 AT THE SAME TIME I 12633
16 AT THE SAME TIME? 11155
17 AT THE SAME TIME IT 10889
18 AT THE SAME TIME THAT 10650
19 OF THE SAME NAME. 10025
20 AT THE SAME TIME! 9807

2 SAME (RR33) adverbial phrase

ALL THE SAME 47282 (C1 phrase = despite what has just been said)

It‘s all the same to us.

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