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make all the difference

verb

Definitions

  1. To be a crucial or deciding factor

    To be a crucial or deciding factor; to have a very significant effect (often a positive one).

    • We are all framed of the same mold, hewed out of the same Rocke, made as it were, of the same cloth, the sheares, as they say, onely going betweene; it is therefore onely the free loue and grace of God, which makes all the difference.
    • How am I ever to look him in the face and say such things? Could you do it? But then he is your cousin, which makes all the difference.

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