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

Tanners who leave the salon wearing snug belts that cause sweating, Peterson says, end up with that sawn-in-half look.

From The Daily Beast

I wonder what that beggar of a Cut-in-Half is going to do with the poor little chap!

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Cut-in-Half opened the trap, and called each to give him his morsel of bread.

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This, however dreadful, was far from contenting Cut-in-Half's savage nature.

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I have nothing to say about myself, except that I am as happy as a cut-in-half thing can be.

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Amongst the latter was one well known as Cut-in-Half,—he was so cruel, and especially to children.

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