"Six of one and half-a-dozen of the other" nghĩa là gì?
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"Six of one and half-a-dozen of the other" = 6 cái này và nửa tá cái kia -> không khác gì nhau.
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It might even have been his fault, or at any rate, six of one and half a dozen of the other, so stop torturing (ngừng hành hạ) yourself and write it all off as craziness on everyone's part.
“It is six, one half a dozen of another as far as I am concerned,” Newsome said. “What does matter is who are you going to put in those positions that is going to care about the children you have in the school district?”
A witness (nhân chứng) branded it ‘an unpleasant street’ (con đường khó chịu) and said it was ‘like a cattle market’ (chợ gia súc). The two men, both chemical workers, had again exchanged words at the works. Magistrates (quan tòa) dismissed the case, calling it ‘six of one, half a dozen of the other’, and ordering each party to pay their own costs.
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