what you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts
swings and roundabouts
forlesing
deprivation
loss
tradeoff
wash
disadvantage
take the count
make-or-break
consolation
dead loss
stand
return
shipwreck
negative-sum
erosion
want
conservation
preservation
job
losings
sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you
money-loser
calamity
go from zero to hero
take the l
cut both ways
easy come, easy go
nondeath
losing streak
fizzle out
ill-got gains
lose ground
chuck up the sponge
destructive
give up
disprofit
drop out
fall by the wayside
compensation
fall
drop by the wayside
loserishness
throw in the towel
restitution
throw in
profit and loss
quit
lossage
Pyrrhic victory
undoing
downwardness
zero-sum game
miss
risk
additionality
licking
profit
loserness
game over
game theory
theory of games
one's race is run
fallenness
under
fade away
good
pull out of the fire
devalue
twilight
no joy
back in the game
live by the sword, die by the sword
damnific
dent
sorrowing
snatch victory from the jaws of defeat
winninger
mourning
run a risk
go backwards
losing
stop the bleeding
loser
bereaved
opportunity cost
grieving
loss-making
grief-stricken
bereft
worsening
business venture
depravation
.500
off the nut
cost
overturn