half of it

Idioms  

1. 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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Example Sentences

Cloud business is 99% of that backlog, and more than half of it is expected to become revenue within the next two years.

From Barron's • May 4, 2026

And the other half of it is just age.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

Add the fact that Iran is believed to have 50 days of output stored on tankers, about half of it around Singapore.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

But the "dark and gritty" 12-part storyline was ordered to be wiped, and more than half of it remains missing.

From BBC • Mar. 12, 2026

Half of the sky was sunlit; half of it was moonlit.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi