by the same token
prep_phraseEtymology From token (“evidence, proof”) (obsolete sense).
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Idiomatic For a similar reason; in a similar manner; by virtue of the selfsame phenomenon, through its various aspects.
- 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."1886 June 25, Edward Orton, “Petroleum and Natural Gas as Found in Ohio”, in Science, volume 7, number 177, →JSTOR, page 561:
- Related terms
- by that token, flip side, other side of the coin