The phrase "convey the same idea" is a perfectly correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to explain that two different statements have the same underlying meaning. For example, you could say: "Although his expression was different, what he said and what his body language conveyed were the same idea."
More than a dozen e-mail messages convey the same idea.
All, however, convey the same idea: Tech is coming for banking, and unwary banks will quickly be replaced by startups.
The very grant of a charter is an assertion of the title of the crown, and its words convey the same idea.
(NRC, 2012, p. 127) The two statements convey the same idea: One interaction between two objects leads to a predictable change in energy.
This process involved focusing on text where several of the GPs used similar words or experiences to convey the same idea.
You can use a thesaurus if you can't think of another word to convey the same idea, as it can remind you of other similar words you already know (these words are called synonyms).
The Italian words convey the same ideas as the English equivalents: a new story about the cosmos to contemplate for pleasure is fine, a demonstration of the way things work is not.
Matthew L. Myers, president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, a Washington advocacy group, said cigarette companies had responded to bans of terms like "light" and "low tar" in at least 78 countries by color-coding their packaging to convey the same ideas.
"Self-Portrait," Schad's best-known work, conveys the same idea of erotic narcissism: Schad sits in a see-through green shirt on a rumpled bed beside a naked woman with a "sfregio" down her face, a scar like the ones jealous Neapolitan men gave their lovers.
These people were called Tories in the days of your fathers; and the appellation, probably, conveyed the same idea that is meant by a more modern, though a somewhat less euphonious term, which we often find in our papers, applied to some of our old politicians.
You actually need to restructure it until it is a completely new paragraph that conveys the same idea.
