单词 | swings and roundabouts |
释义 | swings and roundaboutsphrase See full dictionary entry for swingIf you say that a situation is swings and roundabouts, you mean that there are as many gains as there are losses. [British]swings and roundabouts in British Englishequal advantages and disadvantages swings and roundaboutssaid to mean that there are as many advantages as there are disadvantages in a particularsituation When it rains, high-street pubs will do better than country pubs because people maynot want to leave town. When the sun shines, pubs with gardens benefit. It's verymuch swings and roundabouts. |
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