cut both ways

Meaning

1. cut both / two ways

   to have two opposite effects or results

In the movies · 3

• It cuts both ways.Oppenheimer2023
• Not only that, but this stuff could cut both ways.Bicentennial Man1999

Learn it in full scenes

• Oppenheimer2023
  • Bohr Sends Oppenheimer to Göttingen
  • Strauss Offers Oppenheimer a Job
  • Rabi Meets Oppenheimer on a Train

From the same entry

• across the way
• all the way
• always the way
• any way you slice it
• be born made that way
• be set in your ways
• by the way
• by way of
• by way of the way of
• come your way
• either way
• every which way