divide something fifty-fifty

divide something fifty-fifty
divide something fifty-fifty & split something fifty-fifty
to divide something into two equal parts. (The

fifty

means 50 percent.) •

Tommy and Billy divided the candy fifty-fifty.

The robbers split the money fifty-fifty.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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