Fifty-fifty

Let’s say we have 100 dollars. We decide to split the money so that each of us gets half. We each get fifty dollars. It’s a fifty-fifty split.

Meaning of Idiom ‘Fifty-Fifty’

Fifty-fifty means shared evenly; equal.

When something is shared fifty-fifty, it is shared evenly.


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Fifty-fifty can be used as an adjective or adverb.

We often say “go fifty-fifty on” forming an idiomatic phrasal verb.

For example, “do you want to go fifty-fifty on a pizza?” This means, do you want to order a pizza and each pay half? Remember that 100 dollars that we went 50-50 on? Another way to say this is to ‘go halves.’

Fifty is 50% of 100. This idiom doesn’t refer to the number 50 but to 50%, or half of something.

Usage

This idiom is used in many ways. It can be used in regards to sharing resources or money, sharing responsibility, or as a way of stating the probability or chance of something occurring.

Examples Of Use

“Let’s just split the bill 50-50 to keep it simple.”

“My wife and I share the chores fifty-fifty.”

“It looks like he has a 50/50 chance of winning the election.”

“They say the chances of winning a coin toss is 50/50 but this isn’t actually true! It’s more like 51/49.

Origin

This idiom has been used since at least the late 1900s.

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