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I'm looking for the definition of a phrase like this, where two ideas of thought are reversed and still make sense.

Nothing too exciting to report, but reporting nonetheless is exciting.

I feel like sentences like this should have a proper name.

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I found the answer. The phrase is actually called an antimetabole, defined by Wikipedia as:

the repetition of words in successive clauses, but in transposed order (e.g., "I know what I like, and I like what I know").

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    +1 I was going to say chiasmus (having lived through Latin and Greek in high school [during the dark ages]) but on deeper reflection, you are more right!
    – bib
    Commented Apr 27, 2016 at 21:49

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