English Dictionary

cut both ways

verb

To have both benefits and drawbacks. / To have implications for something as well as its counterpart. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cut, both, ways.

Using social media can cut both ways - it can help you connect with others, but it can also be a source of stress and anxiety.

意味（1）

To have both benefits and drawbacks.

A redundant observation about Ben Fouhy: It's not easy being him. No, not really. But that cuts both ways you know, that affords me the opportunities, the highs and lows, the heights and depths that perhaps other people don't ... experience.

意味（2）

To have implications for something as well as its counterpart.

Readers are invited at this point to listen to the pleasant sound of the recordings in LT [Lehman’s temperament], which can be found on this page. Together with the record value of MSS [Music Sameness of Scales], this makes a convincing case for Lehman’s hypothesis. But arguments, like a razor,(5) cut both ways: some lesser known temperament might achieve a better MSS than LT

意味（3）

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cut, both, ways.