cut both ways

verb

Definitions

  1. To have both benefits and drawbacks.

  2. To have implications for something as well as its counterpart.

  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cut, both, ways.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cut both ways. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA