not half
UK informalused in spoken English to express a positive statement more strongly:
It wasn't half crowded in the club last night (= it was very crowded).
She didn't half shout at him (= she shouted a lot at him).
"You enjoyed yourself last night, didn't you?" "Not half !" (= Very much!)
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Linguistics: intensifying expressions
- a heck of a sth/sb idiom
- a load of crap, nonsense, rubbish, etc. idiom
- all the way idiom
- annoy, frighten, scare, etc. the hell out of sb idiom
- anything
- as... as anything idiom
- be chilled/frozen to the marrow idiom
- clear
- core
- extreme
- hell of a idiom
- leastways
- like a ton of bricks idiom
- load
- long
- more than idiom
- mortally
- out-and-out
- to hell idiom
- to your heart's content idiom
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