same shit, different toilet
- idiom
- Offensive
:
la misma mierda, distinto lugar
- After changing companies, Lisa discovered it was same shit, different toilet—office politics everywhere.
Examples
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Every time we change managers, it's still same shit, different toilet.
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People often think a new relationship will solve their problems, but it's often same shit, different toilet.
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Despite moving to a bigger city, he found that it was just same shit, different toilet.
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It's just same shit, different toilet with this project!
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After changing companies, Lisa discovered it was same shit, different toilet—office politics everywhere.
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Despite moving to a bigger city, he found that it was just same shit, different toilet.
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People often think a new relationship will solve their problems, but it's often same shit, different toilet.
Synonyms
7
3.7
A situation that happens again and again and feels boring
A situation where different people bring the same problems
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
same + shit, + different + toilet
The literal words ('same', 'shit', 'different', 'toilet') signal a contrast between sameness and change of context, so learners can partially infer that it comments on unchanged problems in a new situation. However, the use of 'shit' metaphorically for 'problems/unkindest' and the vulgar, idiomatic mapping to 'toilet' is culturally marked and not fully predictable from the parts without prior exposure.
Etymology
Same shit, different toilet gives a simple, dirty image: the same shit is just in a different toilet, so nothing really changes. That's why people use it to mean 'the same problems' are still there even after a change.