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fifty-fifty, adv. and a. colloq. (orig. U.S.).
[f. fifty n. 1.]
A. adv. On a basis of fifty per cent. (or one half) each; half-and-half, equally.
B. adj. Equal, shared equally; half-and-half.
1913Wodehouse Little Nugget vi. 121 Say, Sam, don't be a hawg. Let's go fifty-fifty in dis deal. Ibid. xii. 209 Would a fifty-fifty offer tempt you? Ibid. xiv. 248 ‘Fifteen per cent. is our offer,’ he said. ‘And to think it was once fifty-fifty!’ 1916H. L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap vi. 263 And she glared at Cousin Egbert with rage and distrust splitting fifty-fifty in her fevered eyes. 1922E. O'Neill Anna Christie i. 19 Good girl?.. Well, yuh treated me square yuhself. So it's fifty-fifty. 1924Daily Mail 28 Nov. 10/5 [He] did not take a fifty-fifty chance that the bedroom door he would enter by was the right one. It was pointed out to him the day before. 1937Times 13 Apr. p. xxix/4 In many craft the power of the engine is such that one could hardly say into which division she fits; there is, as a fact, a type of motor-sailer which is spoken of as the ‘fifty-fifty’. 1949H. Wadman Life Sentence 47 It will take much of the sting out of the opposition if the ownership is fifty-fifty. |