other side of the coin

1. The opposite aspect, as in I know you'd like to go, but the other side of the coin is that someone has to stay with the baby or The subscription is expensive, but the other side of the coin is that it's an excellent publication. This term replaced the older other side of the medal or other side of the shield about 1900.

Example Sentences

He found the other side of the coin on the landing.

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But the other side of the coin is instant consequences.

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On the other side of the coin, just because a performing asset pulls forward its refinancings, that’s not necessarily a bad thing, he added.

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"If you have this kind of behaviour, you have to understand you have things that are good on that and then you have the other side of the coin," he said.

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SBF is now trying to play the other side of the coin, arguing that it was his drift from the Democratic Party that landed him behind bars.

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