cut both ways

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To have both benefits and drawbacks. idiomatic
    — A redundant observation about Ben Fouhy: It's not easy being him. "No, not really. But that cuts both ways you know, that affords me the opportunities, the highs and lows, the heights and depths that perhaps other people don't ... experience."
  2. To have implications for something as well as its counterpart. idiomatic
    — Readers are invited at this point to listen to the pleasant sound of the recordings in LT [Lehman’s temperament], which can be found on this page. Together with the record value of MSS [Music Sameness of Scales], this makes a convincing case for Lehman’s hypothesis. But arguments, like a razor,(5) cut both ways: some lesser known temperament might achieve a better MSS than LT
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cut, both, ways.

词形变化

cuts both ways present,singular,third-person cutting both ways participle,present cut both ways participle,past cut both ways past
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