two sides of the same shield

two sides of the same shield

Two different, contrary, or opposite perspectives about or aspects of something. We fear death because it seems unknown to us, but it and life are really just two sides of the same shield. Thus we can see that arrogance and envy are often two sides of the same shield, both provoking and feeding off of the other.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

two sides of a shield

two ways of looking at something; two sides to a question.
See also: of, shield, side, two
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See also:
  • different sides of the same shield
  • shield
  • two sides of a shield
  • contrary to
  • contrary to (something)
  • the reverse of the medal
  • status
  • quo
  • challenge the status quo
  • to the contrary
References in periodicals archive
They are as omnipresently together as the two sides of the same shield. The natural history of man must find the mind and the self developing in the process of social give and take, but it is the social give and take of biologic units of the human species, and the full account is of biologic as well as of social psychology.
Mind, Self and Society