in the long run

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   concerning a longer period in the future

   so what difference does it make in the long run?

In the movies · 8

• so what difference does it make in the long run?Downton Abbey: A New Era2022
• It won't make any difference in the long run. I'll get him.The Third Man1949
• Maybe not in the long run.Onward2020
• The house always wins in the long run.The Invention of Lying2009
• It's good for them in the long run.25th Hour2002
• And it was all gonna even out in the long run.Bad Education2019
• But in the long run, over the course of a season, no chance.Rush2013
• Long run.Avatar: The Way of Water2022

Learn it in full scenes

• Downton Abbey: A New Era2022
  • Violet Gives Sybbie a French Villa
  • Jack Barber Pitches Filming at Downton
  • Hollywood Comes to Downton
• The Third Man1949
  • Calloway Exposes Harry Lime
  • Martins Checks Into a Military Hotel
  • Kurtz Feeds Martins a Cover Story
• Onward2020
  • Ian's Sixteenth Birthday Morning
  • Ian's Awkward Party Invite
  • Dad Leaves Ian a Wizard Staff

From the same entry

• as long as your arm
• at long last
• at the longest
• by a long way
• go back a long way
• go a long way
• have come a long way
• have a long way to go
• how long is a piece of string
• it's a long story
• the long arm of
• the long and short of it

More idioms

• ahead of time
• have had enough
• face to face
• all over the place
• in no time
• at stake
• go with the flow
• know better
• make all the difference
• make the most of
• be done with
• kill two birds with one stone