English Explanatory Dictionary

swings and roundabouts

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

Gains and losses that offset each other.

Word forms

swings and roundabouts

Related words

what you gain on the swings you lose on the roundabouts what you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts snakes and ladders twists and turns

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