swings and roundabouts
C1CEFR level
50/100Rarity: uncommon
InformalRegister
A situation in which the advantages and disadvantages balance each other out, so it makes little difference overall.
Working from home saves the commute but costs you the office banter; it's swings and roundabouts.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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