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halves
[ havz, hahvz ]
Idioms and Phrases
- by halves,
- incompletely or partially:
to do things by halves.
- halfheartedly:
better not at all than by halves.
- go halves, to share equally; divide evenly.
More idioms and phrases containing halves
see by halves ; go halves . Also see under half .Example Sentences
Again, to use a metaphor that applies to both cities, it’s like there’s an earthquake between that separates the two halves.
A vertical lamppost splits the scene roughly into halves.
Bright described it as "a game of two halves" but this is nothing new for England.
What’s more, he would have one smaller board for every team in the league — say one for the Eagles, one for the Chiefs — then conjoin those two halves when those teams were playing each other.
The film doesn’t attempt to fit these two halves of his personalty together.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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