mixed blessingnoun [ S ]
uk/ˌmɪkst ˈbles.ɪŋ/us/ˌmɪkst ˈbles.ɪŋ/something that has advantages and disadvantages:
Getting into the team is a mixed blessing - I'll have to spend a lot of time training.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Good luck and bad luck
- a blessing in disguise idiom
- bad/hard/tough luck! idiom
- be a good idiom
- be bad luck on sb idiom
- be down on your luck idiom
- blessing
- favour
- godsend
- grace
- hapless
- happenstance
- happily
- lap
- misadventure
- mischance
- misfortune
- mishap
- Murphy's law
- shame
- stroke
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