fifty-fifty

English

Alternative forms

• 50-50, 50/50, 50 50, 50.50
• fifty fifty, fifty/fifty

Pronunciation

• /ˌfɪfti ˈfɪfti/

• Audio (US):

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Adverb

fifty-fifty (not comparable)

1. In half: in two equal parts, shares, etc.

   I'll handle production, you handle sales, and we'll split profits fifty-fifty.

   • 1971, Lyndon Johnson, The Vantage Point‎^[1], Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 281:

     Throughout our discussions and searching inquiries one object figured ever more prominently—the moon. We learned that it was technologically possible to develop a program to reach the moon, and we came to realize that since the Russians did not then have the ability to reach the moon any more than we did, we had at least a fifty-fifty chance of beating them there. Moreover, a moon-landing goal would give a dramatic focus to a space program designed to develop our skills and capacities on a broad technological front.

Translations

in half — see also half and half

• Arabic: مُنَاصَفَةً (munāṣafatan), بِالنِّصْف (bi-n-niṣf)
• Tunisian Arabic: نُصّ نُصّ (noṣṣ noṣṣ)
• Bulgarian: петдесет на петдесет (petdeset na petdeset)
• Catalan: per la meitat
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 各半 (zh) (gèbàn)

• Dutch: samsam (nl), fiftyfifty (nl)
• Finnish: puoliksi (fi)
• French: fifty-fifty (fr), cinquante-cinquante (fr), moitié-moitié (fr)
• German: fifty-fifty (de), halbe-halbe (de), halbpart (de)
• Hungarian: fifti-fifti
• Irish: caoga-caoga, leath is leath
• Italian: a metà
• Japanese: 半々 (はんはん, hanhan)
• Korean: 반반 (ko) (banban)
• Macedonian: фи́фти-фи́фти (fífti-fífti)
• Polish: fifty-fifty (pl), po połowie, pół na pół
• Portuguese: ao meio
• Russian: по́ровну (ru) (pórovnu), попола́м (ru) (popolám), пятьдеся́т на пятьдеся́т (ru) (pjatʹdesját na pjatʹdesját), фи́фти-фи́фти (ru) (fífti-fífti)
• Spanish: en dos mitades, cincuenta-cincuenta
• Turkish: fífti-fífti ((fífti-fífti))

Adjective

fifty-fifty (not comparable)

1. Half and half.

   In this recipe, the flour and sugar are fifty-fifty.   =   In this recipe, the flour and sugar are in fifty-fifty proportions.

2. Used to describe two possible outcomes as being equally likely.

   It is fifty-fifty that the employee who made the mistake will end up fired.

See also

• as likely as not
• as often as not
• even chances

Noun

fifty-fifty (plural fifty-fifties)

1. (sports) A challenge between two opposing players, where both have an equal chance of taking possession.
2. (skateboarding) Ellipsis of fifty-fifty grind, a rail or edge grind, using both trucks to grind along, longitudinally aligned.
3. (snowboarding) Ellipsis of fifty-fifty slide, a rail slide where the snowboard is longitudinally aligned with the direction of the slide, down the centerline.

Coordinate terms

boarding

• boardslide

See also

• go halfsies, go halves, halfsies
• half and half
• six of one, half a dozen of the other

French

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English fifty-fifty.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fif.ti.fif.ti/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Adverb

fifty-fifty

1. fifty-fifty

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English fifty-fifty.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfif.ti ˈfif.ti/

• Audio:

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• Syllabification: fif‧ty-‧fif‧ty

Adverb

fifty-fifty (not comparable)

1. (colloquial) fifty-fifty

   Synonyms: po połowie, pół na pół

Further reading

• “fifty-fifty”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “fifty-fifty”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[3] (in Polish)

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English fifty-fifty.

Adverb

fifty-fifty

1. fifty-fifty