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half the battle
A successful beginning, as in You've got the shopping list done—that's half the battle. This expression is an abbreviation of an 18th-century proverb, “The first blow is half the battle.”
Example Sentences
"Recognising it is half the battle," he told host Lauren Laverne.
Wrangling that audience is half the battle, and when he has them in the palm of his hand with a quick succession of punchlines, Skinner flips the script to show off his dramatic chops.
"Like only half the battle is creating the safe space. The other half of the battle is getting people to not do these things and not have these behaviours."
It’s because he is in a constant state of identifying the luck in his life, which he says is half the battle when it comes to success.
If we can silence that, it's half the battle won.
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