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alt. 1 (context music dated 1930-1980 English) The B-side of a phonograph record that carried a less popular recording. 2 The converse; opposite, usually negative, inherent aspects or consequences of something. n. 1 (context music dated 1930-1980 English) The B-side of a phonograph record that carried a less popular recording. 2 The converse; opposite, usually negative, inherent aspects or consequences of something.
Usage examples of "flip side".
Jack had waited for her to backslide with that queer fatalism which is the flip side of childish credulity and innocence.
And of course the flip side of that coin is the fear that one day a real black man will come along and steal you away.
She failed to appreciate that the sensitivity with which he had listened to her and taken her to bed during the summer, had a flip side of terrible nerves and vulnerability to outside pressures before a big class.
On the flip side is the printed message BACK AT ONE - UNTIL THEN I'M HISTORY.
The faces of seven people, in three-quarter profile, were etched into the flip side.
The flip side is that while it's intended to be a permanent gig, he needs them for a mission that.
The flip side was that the same clustering was beginning to act upon him, beginning to bring him out of his fugue.
His face is a mask of pure zeal: Ron Ziegler -- left-hand man to a doomed and criminal president, the political flip side of every burned-out acid freak who voted for Goldwater and then switched to Tim Leary until the pain got too bad and the divine light of either Jesus or Maharaj Ji lured him off in the wake of another Perfect Master.
The flip side was that many of the standard infections were unable to gain a hold.