highs and lows
Peaks and valleys
Highs and lows are the contrasting extremes of experience—the good times and the bad, the peaks and valleys.
The phrase acknowledges that life contains both: We've been through the highs and lows together.
It appears often in reflections on relationships, careers, or any extended endeavor: The highs and lows of parenthood.
- ups and downsAlternating good and bad
- peaksHighest points attained
- mountain peaksHighest elevations of ranges
- valleysLow areas between hills
- upsIncreases or raises
downs · rollercoaster · wild ride · thrill ride · swings · mood · waves · euphoria · despair · rock bottom · mania · manic episode · depression · fluctuations · extremes · cycles · crests · troughs
- fluctuationsfluctuations, oscillations, variations, swings, waves
- emotional volatilitymood swings, lability, volatility, dysregulation, ups and downs
- group gamesicebreaker, party game, party games, group game, team building
- Market Volatilitymarket crash, price spikes, flash crash, boom and bust, bear market
- oscillationoscillation, back and forth, back-and-forth, to and fro, ebb and flow
highs and lowssteady state
Unchanging system condition
constancy · stability · equilibrium · sameness · uniformity
highs and lowsmediocrity
Quality of being average
moderation · averageness · middle ground · ordinariness · neither here nor there
high, higher, highest, highly, highness, lowest, lowness, lowering, lowered