half of it

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]

Example Sentences

Half of it isn’t if we get there or not.

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Together, the two pilots had more than 19,000 hours of flight experience - nearly half of it on the Boeing 787.

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Portillo, a Salvadoran immigrant who earned $570 a month as a nurse’s aide, was spending more than half of it on rent for the garage.

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I’ve completed a little more than half of it.

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Reversing the welfare cuts would wipe out around half of it.

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