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Idioms and Phrases

A successful beginning, as in You've got the shopping list done—that's half the battle . This expression is an abbreviation of an 18th-century proverb, “The first blow is half the battle.”

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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