ups and downs

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Meaning: (idiomatic)Periods ofpositiveandnegativeevents,moods, orinteractions; highs and lows.Heidi and Mike had theirups and downs, but they stayed married for more than 60 years.1848, William Makepeace Thackeray,Our Street,page34:So it is the world wags: that honest men and knaves alike are always havingups and downsof fortune, and that we are perpetually changing tenants in Our Street.; Undulations.1960August, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, inTrains Illustrated, page463:[...] speed barely exceeded 30 m.p.h. until well beyond Kelty and from the front end theups-and-downsof the track occasioned by pitfalls are very noticeable.

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