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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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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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