ups and downs
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ups and downs pl (plural only)
- (idiomatic) Periods of positive and negative events, moods, or interactions; highs and lows.
- Heidi and Mike had their ups and downs, but they stayed married for more than 60 years.
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Our Street, page 34:
- So it is the world wags: that honest men and knaves alike are always having ups and downs of fortune, and that we are perpetually changing tenants in Our Street.
SynonymsEdit
- vicissitudes (formal)
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