ups and downs plural noun
If someone or something experiences ups and downs, a mixture of good and bad things happens to them:
Like most married couples we've had our ups and downs, but life's like that.

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ups and downs
the mixture of good and bad things that happen.
Ups and downs are to be expected in life, but that doesn't make the down parts any easier.

Related vocabulary: the ebb and flow of something

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ups and downs
good fortune and bad fortune
He is having a few ups and downs but generally he is doing well.

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ups and downs
n. phr. Vicissitudes; alternating periods between good and bad times; changes in fortune.
He is now a wealthy stock trader, but at the beginning of his career he, too, had many ups and downs.

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