not the half of it
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True — but that’s not the half of it.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2018
But the dazzling campus was not the half of it.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 4, 2016
He says he also had a thorn there, removed when his penalty famously floated gently into the net; catharsis is not the half of it.
From The Guardian • Feb. 9, 2013
According to the museum’s news release, the show is “about the life of the art object in domestic spaces,” but this benign-sounding description is not the half of it.
From New York Times • Aug. 25, 2011
“That’s not the half of it, either,” said Francis.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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