swings and roundabouts
.500
losing streak
shipwreck
what you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts
disadvantage
Pyrrhic victory
remuneration
restitution
loss-making
negative-sum
gravy
loss
cross-buttock
deprivation
even up
tradeoff
record
make-or-break
return
licking
loss ratio
stop the bleeding
Cadmean victory
zero-sum game
dead loss
off the nut
beating
defeated
losings
Double Jeopardy
discomfited
submit
theory of games
fall
pasting
harvest
nip and tuck
overturn
game theory
destructive
winning streak
ill-got gains
lurch
scalp
erosion
skunk
lost ground
preservation
reparation
wash
calamity
snatch victory from the jaws of defeat
conservation
risk
toll
requital
gammon
pip
honest
damnific
money-loser
fair
gaining
regret
cut both ways
lossage
nonvictory
losing
lost
nondeath
red ink
equifinal
disprofit
forfeiture
cross-subsidy
hurt
restitutional
offstand
moral victory
sacrifice
cooked
golden egg
dearly-won
open position
productive
counteradvantage
detriment
write off
forlesing
costly
crownlessness
defeatedness
indemnification
deadbeat
easy come, easy go
gg