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Prepositional phrase
in two
- (set phrase) Into two parts.
- Synonyms: in half, in twain; see also Thesaurus:asunder
1894 May, Rudyard Kipling, “Kaa’s Hunting”, in The Jungle Book, London, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published June 1894, →OCLC, page 47:They carry a branch half a day, meaning to do great things with it, and then they snap it in two.
- 1900, Andrew Lang, "The Twin Brothers" in The Grey Fairy Book:
- [I]f you can cleave it in two with one stroke of your sword, I will give you my daughter to wife.
- 2011 Jan. 10, Alex Perry, "Can Sudan Split Without Falling Apart?," Time (retrieved 23 July 2014):
- [S]outherners are expected to vote overwhelmingly to carve Africa's biggest country in two.
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References
- “in two”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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