una de cal y otra de arena

Spanish

Noun

una de cal y otra de arena f (uncountable)

(idiomatic) an alternation of two opposite things, for example hot and cold, good cop bad cop, zigzag, up and down, happy one minute and sad the next

Further reading

“una de cal y otra de arena”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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