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swings and roundabouts

noun

Definitions

  1. Gains and losses that offset each other.

    • If, in order to save money, you never buy a parking ticket, you are more likely to get fined, so it's all swings and roundabouts really.
    • Whether we pick up Mary first and then John or John first and then Mary is a matter of swings and roundabouts.

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for swings and roundabouts. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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