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Phrase: Two sides to every coin
There’s almost nothing in life – people included – which is one-sided.
That’s why English has the expression; there are two sides to every coin.
It means there is always another way of looking at something or another side to the situation.
The headlines in Japan these days are full of road rage stories.
I have already, in fact, created a lesson about it.
While curating the articles for the lesson, I was surprised to learn that 80% of people become angry while driving.
So, you see, that proves there are two sides to (almost) every coin.
That sweet little old lady driving a minicar is as likely to commit an incident of road rage as you are.
She may appear to be gentle and kind, but once she gets behind the wheel, she may turn into a beast on the road.
Perhaps she just hasn’t been caught yet.
Most road rage incidents are very brief, with no damage or injuries.
Once a situation does escalate to where the police become involved, it’s their job to find out the truth of the matter.
There are two sides to every coin, and both the rager and the raged-at will have differing opinions of what happened.
The authorities listen to both stories, consider the evidence and determine what the truth is.
Only in domestic spats in the home has the phrase there are two sides to every coin been proven to be false.
That’s why these types of disputes often turn into a messy case of he-said, she-said.
A husband never seems to understand that what he says is not important; it’s only what she says that counts.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least a 7th-grade education (age 12).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 73.
The higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100, the easier the passage is to read.