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split the difference
Idioms and Phrases
Compromise between two close figures, divide the remainder equally. For example, You're asking $5,000 for the car and I'm offering $4,000; let's split the difference and make it $4,500 . [c. 1700]Example Sentences
“I think they split the difference — going big on saying it used AI, and then going small on the description of how it did. It sent a signal that ‘AI is your friend’ to artists and listeners.
There’s really no way to split the difference here: The Musk camp sees the incoming president as an ally in eliminating burdensome regulations in pursuit of technology-boosted greatness and riches.
How are enlisted service members supposed to split the difference while on the ground?
There are reasons to back either side here, so I am going to split the difference and go with a draw.
The Harris campaign has been trying to split the difference.
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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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