be no better than (a) sth
If you say that someone is no better than a person who is unpleasant or unkind, you mean that they have behaved in a similar way to this type of person:
People who don't pay for a bus ticket are no better than common criminals.
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- affinity
- akin
- alike
- allied
- approach
- clock
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- firm
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- homogenous
- identical
- identikit
- inch
- Rome
- same
- same difference idiom
- same old same old idiom
- sameness
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