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单词 to be halves
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to be halves
b. In plural. to be halves: to share equally with a person; with with (e.g. I will be halves with you) or possessive (e.g. I will be your halves). Cf. to go halves at Phrases 2i. Now rare.
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1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. X2v Master Lillie (who is halues with me in this indignitie that is offred).
1625 in J. M. Guilding Reading Rec. (1895) II. 261 This Examinate and ij or iij more went to playe, and the said Marbery was one of them and was haulves with one of the other of the company.
a1681 J. Lacy Sauny the Scott (1698) 46 I'll be your halves Geraldo, and yours Mr. Winlove too.
1755 E. Haywood Invisible Spy II. iii. iv. 71 If you lose it I'll be your halves, and send you the money to-morrow.
1838 Proc. Old Bailey 1 Jan. 285 Farmer, go and bet him a sovereign, and I will be your halves.
1870 T. Wright Bane of Life II. iii. iii. 270 Occasionally she would ‘be halves’ with Kate on a larger scale—in the purchase, for instance, of a ton of coals.
1974 J. McNeil How does your Garden Grow iii. 79 Mick: Need more'n a bit. Sam:..and you'll be home with the missus. Mick: Hmph. With the barmaid at the Prince. Sam: Ah, well I mean when the pub shuts. Mick: Better. Sam: Ha-ha. [Sighing] Like to be halves with yer.
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