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Fifty-fifty   /fˈɪfti-fˈɪfti/   Listen
Fifty-fifty

adjective
1.
Equal in degree or extent or amount; or equally matched or balanced.  Synonym: even.  "On even terms" , "It was a fifty-fifty (or even) split" , "Had a fifty-fifty (or even) chance" , "An even fight"






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"Fifty-fifty" Quotes from Famous Books



... a Hun is no good when he loses his gun or his sworrd. You don't think I'm a-scarred of you, do you? It's fifty-fifty—two against two, you pair of bloomin' kidnapperrs, and you won't tell 'cause you can't afford to! Same reason as we won't. But you can't put one overr on me any morre'n you can on President Wilson and ...
— Tom Slade with the Boys Over There • Percy K. Fitzhugh

... then," bitterly, "I'd know he was flush. He never came near me unless he was broke and wanted something done. A couple of weeks ago he showed up and handed me the details of a little game that looked like easy money; I was to work it and we were to split the proceeds, fifty-fifty." ...
— Ashton-Kirk, Criminologist • John T. McIntyre

... "Yes. There ain't nothin' will bother her. I judged it to be the best way." Endicott's hand shot out and the cowboy's met it in a firm grip. "I reckon we're fifty-fifty on that," he ...
— The Texan - A Story of the Cattle Country • James B. Hendryx

... it a fifty-fifty break between us on the name-calling proposition," rejoined Despeaux, "I'll bid you a kind good day!" He strode away and ...
— All-Wool Morrison • Holman Day



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