"make no odds" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: makes no odds [present, singular, third-person], making no odds [participle, present], made no odds [participle, past], made no odds [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|make<,,made> no odds}} make no odds (third-person singular simple present makes no odds, present participle making no odds, simple past and past participle made no odds)
  1. (colloquial) To make no significant difference; to be all the same. Tags: colloquial Translations (Translations): ei olla väliä (Finnish), nichts ausmachen (German), keinen Unterschied machen (German), być wszystko jedno (Polish)
    Sense id: en-make_no_odds-en-verb-Mhh-9k77 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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