Meaning of ups and downs | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Periods of positive and negative events, moods, or interactions; highs and lows.
   idiomatic, plural, plural-only
2. Undulations.
   plural, plural-only

Equivalents

Examples

“Heidi and Mike had their ups and downs, but they stayed married for more than 60 years.”

“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.”

“[...] speed barely exceeded 30 m.p.h. until well beyond Kelty and from the front end the ups-and-downs of the track occasioned by pitfalls are very noticeable.”

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