flip side

1. 1.

   a different aspect of something (especially the opposite aspect)

   “the flip side of your positive qualities sometimes get out of control”

   “on the flip side of partnerships he talked about their competition”

   Broaderopposition

   trope

Questions about flip side

What does flip side mean?

flip side means "a different aspect of something (especially the opposite aspect)".

Is flip side a common word?

flip side is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.