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

Since then, it has paid out a total of $994 billion, with over half of it coming in the last five years.

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By the time he’d made it to Cattlemen’s, in Dallas, half of it was already demolished to make way for more modern renovations.

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A record-breaking $40 billion fundraising round this March came with strings attached: Half of it is conditioned on OpenAI converting by the end of the year to a more traditional corporate structure that grants shareholders typical rights.

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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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