both ways

For the first time in almost two years, the two-way star would be playing both ways again.

After the bombs began to fall, he tried to have it both ways or, actually, as many ways as one could possibly count—claiming that he had known about Israel’s plans all along, hailing the attack’s initial success, while also urging Tehran to come to the talks and “make a deal” anyway, calling on all parties to stop fighting and asking Russian President Vladimir Putin to help mediate.

Forcibly moving people works both ways.

Baldoni’s attorney Kevin Fritz said the actor wanted to keep the right to re-file those emotional distress claims at a later time — but Lively “can’t have it both ways.”

In case after case since Trump’s restoration, the court has tried to have it both ways, reeling in some of his most extreme actions—while still giving the GOP most of what it wants—without entirely ceding its own power to tell the president “no.”