>> Swings and Roundabouts is similar to what goes around comes around, >> from memory...
Here are a couple of explanations I found on a quick Google search. ,----[ http://www.wordwizard.com/clubhouse/founddiscuss.asp?Num=2253 ] | From _Dictionary of Phrase & Fable, 16th Edition= (1995) | What you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts. What you lose | on one venture you recoup on another. A way of stating the law of | average. | ---------- | What's lost upon the roundabouts we pulls upon the swings. (P. | Chalmers, _Green Days and Blue Days_, 1912) | | By screwing more money out of taxpayers he diminishes their savings, | and the market for trustee securities loses on the swings what it | gains on the roundabouts. (=The Times=, March 24, 1927) '----- ,----- [ http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/sayingsw.htm ] | A catchphrase originating in fairground language. It is an optimistic | assertion that, all things considered, matters tend to turn out | satisfactorily if you take the rough with the smooth. Swings go up and | down, and roundabouts go round and round, but taken both together they | add up to the same thing - a way of giving amusement and making a | living. '----- -- Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] Using The Bat! v1.61 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
