>>74359Phrase
swings and roundabouts
1. This phrase is used in various ways to say that something is a matter of indifference, i.e. that doing something one way is as good as doing it another way.
If, in order to save money, you never buy a parking ticket, you are more likely to get fined, so it's all swings and roundabouts really.
Whether we pick up Mary first and then John or John first and then Mary is a matter of swings and roundabouts.
What you gain on the swings, you will lose on the roundabouts.