| 单词 | half the time |
| 释义 | > as lemmashalf the time g. half the time: more often than not; commonly. ΚΠ 1802 Maryland Herald 9 June Was it economy which induced the attorney general to accept 300 dollars a year for an almost sinecure office and be absent from the seat of government half the time? 1831 Fraser's Mag. Apr. 375/2 He asserts that a power arose out of certain natural sensations, and then tells us that they were half the time artificial. 1899 Washington Post 28 June 6/7 Half the time a woman judges a man's morals by the way he parts his hair and knots his tie. 1927 E. Rowland Varina Howell xiv. 159 Lincoln soon discovered that his Secretary was half the time at cross purposes with the radicals. 1985 M. Munro Patter 24 I can trust ye with nothin; ye're away with the fairies half the time. 2015 S. Tromly Trouble is Friend of Mine xii. 95 ‘I don't even listen to Shereene half the time.’ ‘No?’ ‘No. I zone out.’ < as lemmas |
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