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Weigh the Pros and Cons
Consider the Pros and Cons

Meaning of Idiom ‘Pros and Cons’

The pros and cons are the arguments for and against something; the advantages and disadvantages. ,

When we weigh the pros and cons we consider the arguments for and against something, such as a proposition, idea, etc.


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Examples Of Use

“Before you jump into anything, you have to consider the pros and cons.”

Idioms

“It was hard to move away from the town we had lived in for twenty years, but we decided that the pros outweighed the cons.”

Origin

Used since the late 1500’s, the idiom is taken from the Latin words pro, meaning for and contra, meaning against and the Latin phrase pro et contra: for and against.

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↲1Ayto, John. Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms. Oxford: Oxford U, 2010.
↲2Ammer, Christine. American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.
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Vatican roulette

1. slang A method of birth control in which heterosexual partners do not engage in sexual intercourse while the woman is ovulating; more commonly known as 'the rhythm method.' An allusion to contraceptives being banned within the Catholic ideology (the governing body of which is the Vatican) and the fact that the effectiveness of such a method is as much a gamble as playing roulette. In this day and age, and with four children already, I find it mind-boggling that you and Sarah would be playing Vatican roulette to keep from having another baby.My periods have always been unpredictable, so I've never trusted Vatican roulette as a potential method.
2. slang A method of birth control in which a man withdraws his penis from his partner's vagina before ejaculating; more commonly known as 'the withdrawal method' (technically called 'coitus interruptus'). We got so caught up in the moment that I didn't bother asking if he had a condom, so I just told him to pull out before he came. Well, suffice to say that we lost that game of Vatican roulette.
3. slang Heterosexual intercourse in which no birth-control methods are used at all. Why on earth would you not use a condom, dude? If you go playing Vatican roulette with every girl you hook up with, you're going to end up with a baby in your arms before you've even graduated college!
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. © 2015 Farlex, Inc, all rights reserved.

Vatican roulette

n. the rhythm method of birth control. My parents lost at Vatican roulette, and I am the booby prize.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
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