cut both ways

短语

对双方起作用, 模棱两可

发音

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词形变化

cuts both ways 三单 cuts both ways cutting both ways cutting both ways 现在分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To have both benefits and drawbacks.

    习语

    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. 2.

    To have implications for something as well as its counterpart.

    习语

    This argument cuts both ways.

  3. 3.

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