make all the difference

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   to have an important effect on sb / sth; to make sb feel better

   - An injection of cash could make all the difference. - They mention how much?

   which should make all the difference... shouldn't it?

In the movies · 3

• which should make all the difference... shouldn't it?Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead1991
• - It makes all the difference. - Why? You're never gonna know.Memento2000
• - An injection of cash could make all the difference. - They mention how much?Downton Abbey: A New Era2022
• It can make all the differenceF92021
• And that makes all the difference.The Devil All the Time2020
• Well, that makes all the difference.One, Two, Three1961

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

From the same entry

• make a, no, some, difference
• same difference
• with a difference
• bury the hatchet
• sink your differences
• split the difference
• a world of difference

More idioms

• make the most of
• be done with
• kill two birds with one stone
• over again
• to hell with
• be to blame
• in return
• get the hell out
• on duty
• be under control
• break heart
• be too much