a boon and a bane
a boon and a bane
Something that is both good and bad at once. We're short-staffed right now, so all this work we've gotten lately is both a boon and a bane
See also: and, bane, boon
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- bane
- boon
- boon or bane
- a boon or a bane
- get a roasting
- give somebody/get a roasting
- (Do you) know what I mean?
- be nothing to do with (someone or something)
- be/have nothing to do with somebody/something
- a streak of bad luck