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half the battle
Idioms and Phrases
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
"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.
Getting tougher restrictions on the road was half the battle, he said, as it was important they were enforced.
“And whether it’s the offensive rebounding, the competitiveness on defense. He’s trying. He’s got some things he’s got to learn and get better at, but he’s trying. And honestly, that’s half the battle sometimes.”
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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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