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Phrase(s): easy come, easy go
Cliché said to explain the loss of something that required only a small amount of effort to acquire in the first place. • Ann found twenty dollars in the morning and spent it foolishly at noon. "Easy come, easy go," she said. • John spends his money as fast as he can earn it. With John it’s easy come, easy go.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs