Meaning of every stick has two ends | Babel Free

Definitions

Every situation has two sides.

Examples

“But every stick has two ends, says a Russian proverb, and if the chemical shells helped the Germans, so, by and by, when we and our Allies began to adopt them, they caused also a great deal of damage to the Germans .”

“Apparently forgetting the times in which we live, the U.S. defense secretary, far from advocating mutual disarmament, called on America to increase its strength so as to be able to destroy the socialist countries both singly and combined. We scarcely need point out that this bellicose call by a representative of the Pentagon is fraught with great danger and above all, to America itself. Every stick has two ends.”

“The saying “every stick has two ends” is apropos here. Every situation has an upside and downside, and the bigger the stick, the bigger the ends.”

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