go halfway

Idioms and Phrases

Also, meet someone halfway . Compromise, give up something for the sake of an agreement. For example, The Smiths are willing to go halfway and pay their share for snow-plowing , or I'll make peace with Nancy if she'll just meet me halfway . [Late 1500s]

Example Sentences

You'll go halfway to meet her and she'll drag you about and pass you off.

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She might put aside her pride, and go halfway to meet him, and to remove his difficulties and embarrassments.

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Joel and I used to go halfway to the divide, to meet pa when he bought us new boots.

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They go halfway down the vase, then their courage fails and they climb up again and rejoin the procession.

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If they are really such, the knowledge of them in a well disposed mind will go halfway towards a reform.

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