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• Easy come, easy go
  Easy come, easy go

  Things easily acquired may be lost just as easily.
• easy come, easy go
  easy come, easy go

  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.”

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.

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Easy come, easy go, that was the word.

From Desert Dust by J. Clinton Shepherd

"Easy come, easy go," he commented philosophically and, lighting his pipe from one of the sticks of burning punk placed at intervals along the bar, he went out.

From Port O' Gold A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts by Louis J. (Louis John) Stellman

"Easy come, easy go in Benton," said the gambler, with a smile.

From The U. P. Trail by Zane Grey

Easy come, easy go, is the rule of gamblers.

From Modern Economic Problems Economics Volume II by Frank Albert Fetter

"Easy come easy go," is a saying as applicable to knowledge as to wealth.

From Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Herbert Spencer

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

His was a case of "easy come, easy go; soon gotten, soon spent."

From Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs by O. E. (Osgood Eaton) Fuller