make no odds

present singular third person makes no odds · participle present making no odds · participle past made no odds · past made no odds

1. colloquialTo make no significant difference; to be all the same.

   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.

   1984, Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), page 8

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   'Makes no odds,' conceded George generously. 'Shopgirl—kept company with a foreigner—known as Peter. Even without anything else there ought to be no difficulty in finding her.'

   1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries

   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".

   1980, P. T. Geach, B. Geach, Logic Matters, page 7