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To divide equally between two parties.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic
Examples
- Would you like to go halves on the grocery bill?
- Let's go halves on this big watermelon.
- 1906, Edith Nesbit, The Railway Children, Chapter 4: The engine-burglar, Bobbie couldn't help her face changing a little--not so much because she was disappointed at not getting the engine, as because she had thought it so very noble of Peter, and now she felt she had been silly to think it. Also she felt she must have seemed greedy to expect the engine as well as the sweets. So her face changed. Peter saw it. He hesitated a minute; then his face changed, too, and he said: "I mean not all the engine. I'll let you go halves if you like."
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: go halfsies, go half and half
Antonyms: none provided
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
12 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Chinese Mandarin:
平分
(píngfēn)
— divide equally
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Finnish:
panna puoliksi
— divide equally
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French:
faire moitié moitié
— divide equally
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French:
faire moit moit
— divide equally
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French:
faire moite-moite
— divide equally
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Italian:
fare alla romana
— divide equally
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Russian:
дели́ть попола́м
(delítʹ popolám)
— divide equally
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Russian:
подели́ть попола́м
(podelítʹ popolám)
— divide equally
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Spanish:
ir a medias
— divide equally
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Spanish:
dividir
— divide equally
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Ukrainian:
діли́ти на́впіл
(dilýty návpil)
— divide equally
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Ukrainian:
плати́ти по́рівну
(platýty pórivnu)
— divide equally
