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Perfect Stranger Posted 11 years ago
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Expressions: on the upside, on the downside

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Could you please help me finish the following sentence with a nice idiomatic expression?

Life may treat you well, life may treat you unfairly. Sometimes you are on the downside, sometimes you are on the upside. You never know when the wheels of fortune may change, but...

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I don't think 'downside/upside' are appropriate there; they refer to an aspect, not the thing itself. Life may treat you w ell; lif e may treat you unfairly. Sometimes you're up; sometimes you're down .

— Mister Micawber

  • I don't think 'downside/upside' are appropriate there; they refer to an aspect, not the thing itself.
  • Life may treat you w ell; lif e may treat you unfairly.
  • Sometimes you're up; sometimes you're down .
  • You never know when the wheel of fortune may change, but the worse luck now, the better another time / but every cloud has a silver lining / but what goes up must come down / but even a blind hog sometimes finds an acorn / but that Old Man River, he just keeps rolling along.
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I don't think 'downside/upside' are appropriate there; they refer to an aspect, not the thing itself.

Life may treat you well; life may treat you unfairly. Sometimes you're up; sometimes you're down. You never know when the wheel of fortune may change, but the worse luck now, the better another time / but every cloud has a silver lining / but what goes up
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