Vocabobobo wrote:

Hello. I have seen a numerous sentences/paragraphs starting with the phrase "All the same". I've been wondering what the phrase mean. What is the meaning of the phrase - i.e. if you would replace this phrase with another, what alternative phrase would you choose? I found "all the same" in the following passage (sorry, it's a bit long), from a magazine I'm reading right now, and decided to ask a question here. "Our core mission is to collect and to preserve contemporary art," he says. And he insists that in Buffalo, there are not enough big-money donors to enlarge the acquisition budget by other means.                                                                                                    All the same, while the Albright-Knox is mainly a contemporary collection, it's also the only significant art museum in Buffalo. Thank you in advance.