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Fifty-fifty

adjective

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

... prevent the Germans from making their own dicker with the King of the Belgians or with the Congo government, and rifling the hoard on a fifty-fifty or some ...

— The Ivory Trail • Talbot Mundy

... anyhow. But darn it all, if anything had happened to you the boss would never have forgiven me. He's the whitest old scout God ever put the breath of life into. He's always doing something for somebody. He'd give you the block if you had the gall to ask for it. Play the game fifty-fifty with him and you'll land on both feet. And you, Miss Conover, must not come ...

— The Drums Of Jeopardy • Harold MacGrath

... Rockefeller won't be in it!" said Skippy, who was suffocating. "Snorky, what I said goes! Money isn't everything. No—sentiment's bigger. Fifty-fifty, I ...

— Skippy Bedelle - His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete - Man of the World • Owen Johnson

Words linked to "Fifty-fifty" : equal