Thanks. Always interesting to learn "foreign" slang! ;)

Rich.

>Time for one of those HomeBrews, Rich. The phrase I've heard is "What you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts" Or maybe it's vice versa. So Mark was using a contracted form. Equivalent to our "Six one, half a dozen the other".
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>Barbara (the anglophile programmer)
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>>My next guess, does "it's swings and roundabouts" mean you're trying to compare two things which aren't really comparable? Similar American phrase would be "it's apples and oranges." (or "you're comparing apples to oranges.")
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>>Cheers,