Meaning & use
flip side
The other, often less appealing, side or aspect of a situation.
See it in a sentence
Working from home is convenient, but the flip side is feeling isolated from colleagues.
Winning the lottery sounds wonderful, but there's a flip side of sudden unwanted attention.
A note on using this word
Flip side is informal and almost always used with 'the', as in 'the flip side of' something.
Words with a similar meaning
other sidedownside
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