both ways

adjective

1. another term for each way
2. have it both ways
   usually with a negative to try to get the best of a situation, argument, etc, by chopping and changing between alternatives or opposites

Example Sentences

More than two decades later, Foster chuckled while pondering what might have been had he not been forced to play both ways.

From Los Angeles Times

Jake Tapper thinks Republicans are trying to have it both ways.

From Salon

Art as propaganda works both ways, and agitprop will likely follow from activist artists in the next few years.

From Los Angeles Times

The front organization functions both ways: as the facade of the totalitarian movement to the nontotalitarian world, and as the facade of this world to the inner hierarchy of the movement.

From Salon

Members of the jury changed their views both ways.

From BBC