Idioms

roller-coaster ride

roller-coaster ride

A series or period of drastic changes that occur without warning. After she graduated from college, her life became a roller-coaster ride filled with ups and downs as she tried to establish herself as a fashion designer.
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a roller-coaster ride

If you describe an experience as a roller-coaster ride, you mean that parts of it were very good and parts of it were very bad. Markets on both sides of the Atlantic have had a roller coaster ride over the past five days. The past week was an emotional roller-coaster ride for these people.
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a roller-coaster ride

an experience in which circumstances change rapidly and in a volatile manner from one extreme to another.
2004 BBC News: Business Shares have been on a rollercoaster ride, with US shares plunging and then recovering twice over.
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Written and directed by William Dickerson (class of 2001) and starring actor Neil Hopkins (class of 1999), "Detour" has been gaining great reviews, with The Examiner calling it an "emotional and psychological roller-coaster ride." Hopkins plays a man whose car is trapped in a brutal mudslide and must try to dig himself out.
EXPECT a roller-coaster ride from an exciting and vibrant production of one of the great operas, Don Giovanni.
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