by the same token

English

Etymology

From token (“evidence, proof”) (obsolete sense).

Pronunciation

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Prepositional phrase

by the same token

1. (idiomatic) For a similar reason; in a similar manner; by virtue of the selfsame phenomenon, through its various aspects.

   Synonyms: similarly, likewise, along the lines, in the same vein

   • 1886 June 25, Edward Orton, “Petroleum and Natural Gas as Found in Ohio”, in Science, volume 7, number 177, →JSTOR, page 561:

     The petroleum and gas of eastern Ohio, and by the same token, of western Pennsylvania and New York are unquestionably derived from the great shale formation of Devonian and subcarboniforous age that underlies this territory, and they are stored in sandstones overlying or interstratified with these shales."

Related terms

• by that token

Translations

Translations

• Finnish: samalla tavalla, vastaavasti (fi), samoin (fi)
• French: de même (fr), de la même manière, de la même façon, dans le même esprit, pour les mêmes raisons, dans le même ordre d’idées
• Spanish: de la misma manera, por la misma razón

See also

• flip side, other side of the coin