Synonyms for double-edged sword
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1. double-edged swordnoun

   Synonyms:
   two-edged sword

2. double-edged swordnoun

   A benefit that is also a liability, or that carries some significant but non-obvious cost or risk.

   Synonyms:
   two-edged sword

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1. Des Barres:

   I mean, who wouldn’t? i think she had to maintain the stardom she achieved. It was a double-edged sword… [But] she could have been anything she wanted to be.

2. Tim Clark:

   On the one hand you save on the operating costs, but your yield starts to fall because your corporate business is disappearing so it's a double-edged sword, on balance, the airline community is doing better as a result of the lower oil price.

3. Justin Bartholomew:

   It’s a double-edged sword – energy drinks are bad for you because of the sugar and the caffeine, but, also, if you are drinking these drinks and you have depression, it is a lethal combination.

4. Asher Weinberger:

   Everything is a double-edged sword, the sharing economy has done so much for the world and for people. On the other hand, there is an underbelly of that. There's a dark side of that, like everything in life, right ?

5. Kimberly Gudzune:

   The excitement about these medications are, right now, a little bit of a double-edged sword that I’m glad that people are excited and feel like they have a treatment option for their obesity that would really be meaningful.