Idiom
easy come, easy go
Meaning
Easily won and easily lost (usually said when resigned to a loss; something that comes in the same way, goes in the same way)
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I lost my lottery winnings, but easy come, easy go.”
“He spent his bonus on a wild party, but he just shrugged and said, easy come, easy go.”
“Though the sudden windfall vanished as quickly as it had arrived, he accepted the loss with the philosophy that it was easy come, easy go.”
Examples
simple
“I lost my lottery winnings, but easy come, easy go.”
contextual
“He spent his bonus on a wild party, but he just shrugged and said, easy come, easy go.”
complex
“Though the sudden windfall vanished as quickly as it had arrived, he accepted the loss with the philosophy that it was easy come, easy go.”
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