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you win some, you lose some (idiom) · gains and losses · trade-off

有得有失
yǒu dé yǒu shī
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(idiom) to lose a halberd and gain a spear; fig. to have a loss and a gain; to get something equivalent to what one lost亡戟得矛wáng jǐ dé máo