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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
two-edged
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
sword
▪ If ever fame and wealth proved two-edged swords, they do here.
▪ It was a two-edged sword of obligations of favors given and favors to be returned at a later, appropriate time.
▪ This sounded like an improvement on the statusquo, but it turned out to be a two-edged sword.
▪ But it was a two-edged sword.
▪ The public understanding of science is a two-edged sword.
▪ In a sense, the flattening of businesses in Workplace 2000 is a two-edged sword.
▪ The Audit Commission can, therefore, be something of a two-edged sword in the context of central-local relationships.
▪ But the way Compaq does it creates a two-edged sword.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But it was a two-edged sword.
▪ But the way Compaq does it creates a two-edged sword.
▪ If ever fame and wealth proved two-edged swords, they do here.
▪ In a sense, the flattening of businesses in Workplace 2000 is a two-edged sword.
▪ It was a two-edged sword of obligations of favors given and favors to be returned at a later, appropriate time.
▪ Its blade was two-edged, and made of heavy bronze, the grooves chased like lotus stems.
▪ The individualism identified by Olson and others is, however, two-edged.
▪ This sounded like an improvement on the statusquo, but it turned out to be a two-edged sword.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Two-edged

Two-edged \Two"-edged`\, a. Having two edges, or edges on both sides; as, a two-edged sword.

Wiktionary
two-edged

a. 1 (context of an edged weapon etc English) having two cutting edges 2 (context by extension English) having two, often contrasting, meanings or interpretations

Usage examples of "two-edged".

Irony is a difficult technique whose point is frequently missed, and the ironist may find he is holding a two-edged sword and is himself badly gashed.

But their weapons were a two-edged sword, for any direct hit on the shieldless fighters destroyed them with impressive pyrotechnically-enhanced explosions.

He grinned as he followed the new lords of Circassia up the rough ladder, conscious of the rifle and the sharp two-edged khinjal strapped to his thigh.

He had in His right hand seven stars, and out of His mouth went a sharp two-edged sword, and His countenance was as the sun shineth in His strength.

Their arms were anciently the Glaymore, or great two-handed sword, and afterwards the two-edged sword and target, or buckler, which was sustained on the left arm.

The similarity of human and Delkasu biochemistries was a two-edged sword: if we could eat it, it could eat us.

In the same belt was stuck one of those long, broad, sharp-pointed, and two-edged knives, with a buck's-horn handle, which were fabricated in the neighbourhood, and bore even at this early period the name of a Sheffield whittle.

Radu had been partly right: there were other ways to enthrall a man - but some swords are two-edged.

A ruby light that outdazzled the battle flares, the two-edged ecstasy of feeding.

I stopped in front of a magnificent Viking figure who held a two-edged sword in his right hand and a buckled shield in his left.

A two-edged sword of the finest Swedish steel, its hilt cut from the twisted horn of some fabulous beast of the northern seas that Brand called a narwhal.

What you've got there is a two-edged sword, not a one-edged billhook.

Even he might be something other than what he believed, his magic the two-edged sword about which his uncle Walker had always warned him.

Two clusters of ringed fingers gripped the hilt of an immense two-edged sword.

It comes to me that justice is a two-edged sword and cuts both ways.