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English Idioms :: hale and hearty
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halway.html - {adj. phr.} In very good health; well and strong. * /Grandfather will be 80 years old tomorrow, but he is hale and hearty./ * /That little boy looks hale and hearty, as if he is never sick./ |
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English Idioms :: half
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halway.html - See: GO HALVES, GO OFF HALF-COCKED also GO OFF AT HALF COCK, IN HALF, SIX OF ONE AND HALF-A-DOZEN OF THE OTHER, TIME AND A HALF, TOO-BY HALF. |
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English Idioms :: half a loaf is better than no bread
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halway.html - Part of what we want or need is better than nothing. - A proverb. * /Albert wanted two dollars for shoveling snow from the sidewalk but the lady would only give him a dollar. And he said that half a loaf is better than none./ Compare: BETTER LATE THAN NEVER. |
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English Idioms :: half a notion
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halway.html - {n. phr.}, {informal} A wish or plan that you have not yet decided to act on; a thought of possibly doing something. - Used after "have" or "with" and before "to" and an infinitive. * /I have half a mind to stop studying and walk over to the brook./ * /Jerry went home with half a mind to telephone Betty./ |
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English Idioms :: half an eye
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halway.html - {n. phr.} A slight glance; a quick look. * /The substitute teacher could see with half an eye that she was going to have trouble with the class./ * /While Mary was cooking she kept half an eye on the baby to see that he didn't get into mischief./ |
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English Idioms :: half bad
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halway.html - See: NOT BAD. |
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