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cut both ways
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cut both ways
to affect both sides of an issue equally. Remember that your suggestion that costs should be shared cuts both ways. Your division will have to reduce its budget as well. If our side cannot take along supporters to the game, then yours cannot either. The rule has to cut both ways.
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cut both/two ways
to have two different effects at the same time, usually one good and one bad (never in continuous tenses) Censorship cuts both ways; it prevents people from being corrupted, but it often also prevents them from knowing what is really going on.
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cut both ways
to have both advantages and disadvantages work both ways The Internet cuts both ways – it not only opens borders, it draws boundaries between the people who have it and those who do not.
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lt;p>Others say that community support, an open-source hallmark, can cut two ways in an enterprise setting.
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Romney has found that appealing to people's religious beliefs and feelings can cut two ways.
 
 
 
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