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in half
Idioms and Phrases
In two equal or roughly equal parts. For example, Let's cut this sheet in half . [Late 1500s]Example Sentences
When it arrives, in simple letters against a black backdrop, it doesn’t so much introduce the film as cleave it in half.
It released a document explaining that the administration used a calculation that took the U.S. trade deficit with individual trading partners, divided it by U.S. imports from that partner, and then divided the total in half.
It then divided that total in half.
Instead, the administration took the U.S. trade deficit with individual trading partners, divided it by U.S. imports from that partner, and then divided the total in half.
He has claimed that the policy is merely a response to heavy tariffs that other countries already impose on American goods, but fact-checkers have pointed out those so-called tariffs by other countries are actually just the Trump administration dividing the country's trade deficit by its U.S.-bound exports in half.
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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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