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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]

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One of them was handing out slices of a giant vanilla sheet cake, half of it covered in green icing to represent grass and the other half a hodgepodge of brown, black, and gray icing to depict trash.

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"We're in rich privileged Warwickshire, half of it is in Coventry, I think we need to be really engaging with the regeneration fund for Coventry City Centre."

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“Things are happening so fast through this Department of Government Efficiency, DOGE” — the fictive name of Musk’s made-up agency — “None of us understand the half of it. It’s literally piecing it together,” Murkowski told those gathered in Anchorage.

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Only two months after receiving the $11m, about half of it had already been spent, the indictment says.

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When they got to Season 2, they decided to shoot half of it overseas, over in Ireland.

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