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Six of one and half-a-dozen of the other.
This is an idiom used when there is little or no difference between two options.
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It is filled with Jewish holy days, and if he is true to his faith, Mr. Lieberman will skip at least half a dozen days of campaigning, the Sandy Koufax of politics.
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We Brits love convertibles you see, and despite our unreliable weather and the fact the roof can only come down half-a-dozen days a year, we are – by some figures – the second biggest buyers of soft tops in Europe.
There were twenty-one hundred and finty-four homicides iNew Yorkrk the year that Baby Hope was killed — a half a dozen a day, and five hundred more than in 1987, the year she was probably born.
In one well-documented case in India, a rabid wolf went on the rampage, attacking a dozen people in half-a-dozen villages in a single day.
The Mayor spends a great deal of time away from his office, appearing at half a dozen events most days, and holding multiple press conferences, in both English and Spanish.
"Yeah, half-a-dozen.
Half-a-dozen passersby were injured.
It's a horse race, not a policy seminar, driven by half a dozen polls a day.
"I don't want to teach half a dozen people every day how to steal a locked car.... ...... Two minutes later our friend was on his way.
What these people may be failing to tell you is that they're packed up to the eyeballs with Vicodin, scoffing down half a dozen cupcakes a day or leaning on their already overwrought brother-in-law's business to give them something new to do.
Over the next few days, half a dozen such clown incidents were recorded.
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