might/may as well

idiom

1

—used to say that something should be done or accepted because it cannot be avoided or because there is no good reason not to do it

You might as well tell them the truth.

We may as well begin now.

(informal) "Should we start now?" "Might as well."

2

—used to say that something else could have been done with the same result

The party was so dull that I might (just) as well have stayed home.

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Cutting-edge visual effects create a world of talking photorealistic animals that might as well be a nature documentary, and attention is paid to livening up the humor, with Billy Eichner’s funny, overdramatic meerkat Timon showing up everybody, including Beyoncé. 9. —Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2025

For me, he might as well have been backlit with a smoke. —Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2025

Graham and Tandy are seldom part of scenes where their characters’ grief is the focus — Marley may as well be an outside investigator with no connection to Rodney. —Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 20 Mar. 2025

And that was long before an annoying anticlimactic introduction, and then dispatching, of a big bad who might as well not be named. —Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2025