"go halves" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-go halves.ogg [Australia] Forms: goes halves [present, singular, third-person], going halves [participle, present], went halves [past], gone halves [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|go<goes,,went,gone> halves}} go halves (third-person singular simple present goes halves, present participle going halves, simple past went halves, past participle gone halves)
  1. (idiomatic) To divide equally between two parties. Tags: idiomatic Synonyms: go half and half, go halfsies, go halvers Translations (divide equally): 平分 (píngfēn) (Chinese Mandarin), panna puoliksi (Finnish), fare alla romana (Italian), дели́ть попола́м (delítʹ popolám) [imperfective] (Russian), подели́ть попола́м (podelítʹ popolám) [perfective] (Russian), ir a medias (Spanish), діли́ти на́впіл (dilýty návpil) (Ukrainian), плати́ти по́рівну (platýty pórivnu) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-go_halves-en-verb-6RKRbTtP Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations

Inflected forms

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          "text": "Would you like to go halves on the grocery bill?",
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        },
        {
          "text": "Let's go halves on this big watermelon.",
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          "text": "1906, Edith Nesbit, The Railway Children, Chapter 4: The engine-burglar,\nBobbie couldn't help her face changing a little--not so much because she was disappointed at not getting the engine, as because she had thought it so very noble of Peter, and now she felt she had been silly to think it. Also she felt she must have seemed greedy to expect the engine as well as the sweets. So her face changed. Peter saw it. He hesitated a minute; then his face changed, too, and he said: \"I mean not all the engine. I'll let you go halves if you like.\""
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          "word": "go halfsies"
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          "sense": "divide equally",
          "word": "平分"
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          "sense": "divide equally",
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          "sense": "divide equally",
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      "sense": "divide equally",
      "word": "平分"
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      "sense": "divide equally",
      "word": "panna puoliksi"
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      "sense": "divide equally",
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      "word": "ir a medias"
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      "sense": "divide equally",
      "word": "діли́ти на́впіл"
    },
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      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "platýty pórivnu",
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