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what you lose on the swings you make up on the roundabouts

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  • swings and roundabouts — A situation in which advantages and disadvantages cancel each other out • • • Main Entry: ↑swing * * * swings and roundabouts british informal phrase used for describing a situation that has advantages and disadvantages Thesaurus: partly good and …   Useful english dictionary

  • it's swings and roundabouts — British & Australian, British & Australian something that you say to describe a situation in which there are as many advantages as there are problems. If you make more money, you have to pay more tax, so what we gain on the swings, we lose on the …   New idioms dictionary

  • swing — v. & n. v. (past and past part. swung) 1 intr. & tr. move or cause to move with a to and fro or curving motion, as of an object attached at one end and hanging free at the other. 2 intr. & tr. a sway. b hang so as to be free to sway. c oscillate… …   Useful english dictionary

  • Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs, Thematic Index — absence absence makes the heart grow fonder he who is absent is always in the wrong the best of friends must part blue are the hills that are far away distance lends enchantment to the view out of sight, out of mind …   Proverbs new dictionary

  • Australian federal election, 2007 — Infobox Election election name = Australian federal election, 2007 country = Australia type = parliamentary ongoing = no previous election = Australian federal election, 2004 previous year = 2004 next election = Next Australian federal election… …   Wikipedia

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