Synonyms for double-edged sword
dou·ble-edged sword

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1. double-edged swordnoun

   Synonyms:
   two-edged sword

2. double-edged swordnoun

   A benefit that is also a liability, or that carries some significant but non-obvious cost or risk.

   Synonyms:
   two-edged sword

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1. Wu Ting-Fang:

   Education is like a double-edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled.

2. Pamela Bardhi:

   I think that the truth is a real double-edged sword. It’s painful to know, but it’s necessary, i think that those kids deserve to know what happened to their mother, no matter what, and her family and her friends.

3. Kirby Smart:

   They’ve got really good skill players on the outside, they know how to use those skill players, they put them in different positions, change things up. Brian Robinson, seems like he’s been there for 100 years and he is physical, runs with purpose, intent, a traditional Alabama back. They do a good job, especially against Cincinnati of committing to the run. It’s a double-edged sword. You do too much of this, they can hurt you.

4. Asher Weinberger:

   Everything is a double-edged sword, the sharing economy has done so much for the world and for people. On the other hand, there is an underbelly of that. There's a dark side of that, like everything in life, right ?

5. President Trump:

   Testing is a double-edged sword, weve tested now 25 million people. Its probably 20 million people more than anybody else ... Heres the bad part: When you do testing to that extent, youre going to find more people, youre going to find more cases. So I said to my people, slow the testing down -- please.