even-steven 
(also even-stevens)
adjective & adverb informal
Used in reference to fair and equal competition or distribution of resources: [as adverb]: I split the money with my wife even-steven...
- While the average result puts Labour even-stevens with National, it does not substantially alter the likely outcomes.
- When eyes and teeth are once again exchanged, we'll be even-stevens.
- As to the game itself watched by over 29,000 spectators the first half was even-steven, Galway just holding the edge at half-time, 0-12 to 0-11, and Ollie Canning magnificent at corner-back.
Origin
Mid 19th century: rhyming phrase, used as an intensive.
- phonetically
- phonetician
- phoneticism
- phoneticist
- phoneticization
- phoneticize
- phonetico-phonemic
- phonetico-semantic
- phonetics
- phonetism
- phonetist
- phonetization
- phonetize
- be written (or engraved or set) in stone
- bey
- beyond
- beyond (all) reason
- beyond (also†above) (a person's) expectance
- beyond belief
- beyond comparison
- beyond description
- beyond doubt
- beyond measure
- beyond one's wildest dreams
- beyond (or past) redemption