all things being equal

Meaning

1. all / other things being equal

   if the conditions stay the same; if other conditions are the same

   All things being equal, we should finish the job tomorrow.

In the movies · 1

• All things being equal, the one's longer gonna get there first.Donnie Brasco1997

From the same entry

• A is one thing, B is another
• and things
• be all things to all men
• come to the same thing
• be a good thing
• be no bad thing
• be onto a good thing
• do things to
• do your own thing
• first thing
• first things first
• for one thing