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Easy come, easy go
1- Things easily acquired may be lost just as easily.
easy come, easy go
2- 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.”
Notes
Idioms and Phrases
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.Example Sentences
When layoffs are done remotely, managers may not fully feel the human cost of their decisions, Sutton said: It’s “a little bit easy come, easy go.”
Mr. Gerber responded, “easy come, easy go …”
He sings famous lyrics including "easy come, easy go, little high, little low", and "any way the wind blows".
“Easy come, easy go!” she shouted into the crackling autumn air.
“Obviously it was a bummer, but as an actor, really, truly, it’s easy come, easy go. These things, they come together and they fall apart all the time.”
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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