what you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts
swings and roundabouts
forlesing
deprivation
loss
tradeoff
wash
disadvantage
consolation
take the count
make-or-break
dead loss
stand
return
shipwreck
erosion
negative-sum
want
conservation
job
preservation
losings
sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you
money-loser
nondeath
cut both ways
take the l
go from zero to hero
fizzle out
losing streak
easy come, easy go
calamity
lose ground
ill-got gains
compensation
quit
loserishness
throw in the towel
disprofit
fall
destructive
give up
drop out
drop by the wayside
chuck up the sponge
profit and loss
lossage
restitution
throw in
fall by the wayside
Pyrrhic victory
undoing
downwardness
zero-sum game
fallenness
profit
additionality
risk
licking
under
game theory
game over
loserness
theory of games
miss
one's race is run
pull out of the fire
good
no joy
back in the game
twilight
fade away
devalue
live by the sword, die by the sword
dent
damnific
stop the bleeding
bereaved
snatch victory from the jaws of defeat
loss-making
winninger
losing
bereft
sorrowing
mourning
loser
grieving
run a risk
grief-stricken
go backwards
opportunity cost
worsening
depravation
business venture
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cost
off the nut
overturn