Easy come, easy go

¹ Cultural  

1. Things easily acquired may be lost just as easily.

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easy come, easy go ² Cultural  

1. A phrase suggesting lack of concern over how things turn out, and particularly over money: “She never took things very seriously; ‘easy come, easy go’ was her motto.”

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easy come, easy go Idioms  

1. Readily won and readily lost, as in Easy come, easy go—that's how it is for Mark when he plays the stock market. This phrase states a truth known since ancient times and expressed in numerous proverbs with slightly different wording (lightly come, lightly go; quickly come, quickly go). The adverb easy was substituted in the early 1800s.

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This saying is often used after something has been lost.

Example Sentences

He sings famous lyrics including "easy come, easy go, little high, little low", and "any way the wind blows".

From BBC • Sep. 20, 2022

“Bohemian Rhapsody” carried me from high school to adulthood, easy come, easy go.

From Washington Post • Feb. 21, 2019

In other words, my suspicion would be that in the case of many viral news sites, clicks are easy come, easy go.

From Slate • Dec. 10, 2014

In the digital world, easy come, easy go.

From The Guardian • May 19, 2013

It was "easy come, easy go" with them, and liberal were the purchases they made for their relations and friends.

From Some Reminiscences of old Victoria by Fawcett, Edgar