from one extreme to the other

idiom

used to say that something that is beyond what is normal or reasonable in one extreme changes to something that is in an opposite amount or degree beyond what is normal or reasonable
His mood changed/swung from one extreme to the other.
The weather can go from one extreme to the other.

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In addition to exposing Xi’s policymaking as fundamentally autocratic, the shift from one extreme to the other also undercut people’s trust in government. Yanzhong Huang, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2023 The policy pendulum sometimes tends to shift from one extreme to the other. Ian Duncan, Washington Post, 30 June 2023 Sometimes, the balance in a romance is a pendulum swinging from one extreme to the other. Olivia Waite, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023

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“From one extreme to the other.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/from%20one%20extreme%20to%20the%20other. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.

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