cut both ways

cut both ways
cut both ways
to affect both sides of an issue equally. •

Remember that your suggestion that costs should be shared cuts both ways. Your division will have to reduce its budget as well.

If our side cannot take along supporters to the game, then yours cannot either. The rule has to cut both ways.

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or[cut two ways] {v. phr.} To have two effects; cause injury to both sides. * /People who gossip find it cuts both ways./

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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