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Synonyms

go halves

Idioms  

  1. Also, go fifty-fifty. Share equally. For example, Ann suggested that they go halves on the rent, or The brothers are going fifty-fifty in their new business. The first term dates from the late 1600s, the variant from the early 1900s.

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He offered to go halves on a handbag for Lauren, despite having never met either woman, and even suggested a possible "wedding in Vegas".

From BBC • Feb. 12, 2026

We've found a lovely little place to have our lunches recently, and we'll see if she's treating me or not, but I always, always, offer to go halves!

From BBC • Oct. 16, 2019

For how to go halves, see the previous page.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

George III. has set up a caravan, and is waiting impatiently for Kossuth and Barnum to come and go halves.

From Doesticks, What He Says by Doesticks, Q. K. Philander

We'll pretty near go halves, Miss Merry, from next November.

From The Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon by Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam

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