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half of it
Idioms and Phrases
Only part of something, as in You saw them together, but that's just the half of it; she's moved in with him . This phrase, signifying the most important portion (more than half), is often put negatively as not the half of it , as in You thought they played badly? That's not the half of it, because they've been kicked out of the league . [First half of 1900s]Example Sentences
Only two months after receiving the $11m, about half of it had already been spent, the indictment says.
When they got to Season 2, they decided to shoot half of it overseas, over in Ireland.
Officials with Japan's largest power generator, JERA, have told Reuters they too want to increase purchase of liquefied natural gas from the US to diversify supply as it currently imports half of it from the Asia Pacific region.
That total is spread across several departments and agencies, but USAID's budget constitutes more than half of it at around $40bn - that's about 0.6% of total US annual government spending of $6.75tn.
"What's the point of getting money and then having half of it at the end?" he added.
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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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