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fifty-fifty

or 50-50

[fif-tee-fif-tee]
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adjective
  1. equally good and bad, likely and unlikely, favorable and unfavorable, etc.: a fifty-fifty chance of winning.
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adverb
  1. in an evenly or equally divided way: The board voted fifty-fifty on the merger.
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Idioms
  1. go fifty-fifty (on), to share equally in the cost, responsibility, or profits (of): We went fifty-fifty on the dinner check.
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Origin of fifty-fifty

An Americanism dating back to 1910–15
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  • I say when you have a decision to make and your mind is about fifty-fifty on the subject, how do you decide?

    Shavings

    Joseph C. Lincoln

  • What do we want to split fifty-fifty with them soft, fat millionaires for?

    The Crimson Tide

    Robert W. Chambers

  • The proceeds is to be cut up fifty-fifty as between me and him.

    From Place to Place

    Irvin S. Cobb

  • But if either of us will do, that'll give us each a fifty-fifty chance to escape your toils.

    Spacehounds of IPC

    Edward Elmer Smith

  • Perhaps in only a minimum of cases will the load ever be divided “fifty-fifty.”

    Working With the Working Woman

    Cornelia Stratton Parker

British Dictionary definitions for fifty-fifty

fifty-fifty

adjective, adverb
  1. informal shared or sharing equally; in equal parts
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Idioms and Phrases with fifty-fifty

fifty-fifty

see under under go halves.

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