"half-past-six" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Presumably related to \"half past six\" meaning 6:30 a.m. or p.m. (0630 or 1830), but the origin and explanation is unknown; speculations exist online.",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2005, David Leo, Life's so like dat, illustrated edition, Pagesetters Services, page 108",
          "text": "Hence, its ill-repute of shoddiness and unreliability, as one is criticised for “half-past six work” or an organisation being labelled as a “half-past six company.”",
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        {
          "ref": "2006 May 12, “What is ‘half-past-six’?”, in The Star",
          "text": "Lately there has been a lot of talk by politicians about our being a “half-past-six” nation.",
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        {
          "ref": "2010 June 29, Lim Ee-Van, “What God Made, Human Must Not Divide”, in Tristupe (blog), archived from the original on 2016-09-12",
          "text": "Nah...for such shoddy half past six work...i will stick to my own camera, Tey or Snap-Attack.com!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018 July 21, Datuk Abu Bakar Abdul Hamid, “Staying clear of the half-past-six conundrum”, in The New Straits Times",
          "text": "A RESPECTABLE statesman once said if a country surrenders its sovereignty, it may become a half-past-six country.",
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      "glosses": [
        "Careless; shoddy."
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          "shoddy",
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          "ref": "2006 June 15, pluto, “mkl= Pak Lah must prove he’s not ‘half-past six”, in soc.culture.malaysia (Usenet)",
          "text": "Whatever Mahathir's shortcomings were, he cannot be accused of being a half-past six leader. The problem with Pak Lah[…]is that all the kings’ horses and all the kings’ men cannot prove that he is not one.",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Incompetent."
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  "word": "half-past-six"
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  "etymology_text": "Presumably related to \"half past six\" meaning 6:30 a.m. or p.m. (0630 or 1830), but the origin and explanation is unknown; speculations exist online.",
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  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "ref": "2005, David Leo, Life's so like dat, illustrated edition, Pagesetters Services, page 108",
          "text": "Hence, its ill-repute of shoddiness and unreliability, as one is criticised for “half-past six work” or an organisation being labelled as a “half-past six company.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006 May 12, “What is ‘half-past-six’?”, in The Star",
          "text": "Lately there has been a lot of talk by politicians about our being a “half-past-six” nation.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010 June 29, Lim Ee-Van, “What God Made, Human Must Not Divide”, in Tristupe (blog), archived from the original on 2016-09-12",
          "text": "Nah...for such shoddy half past six work...i will stick to my own camera, Tey or Snap-Attack.com!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018 July 21, Datuk Abu Bakar Abdul Hamid, “Staying clear of the half-past-six conundrum”, in The New Straits Times",
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        "Careless; shoddy."
      ],
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          "text": "Whatever Mahathir's shortcomings were, he cannot be accused of being a half-past six leader. The problem with Pak Lah[…]is that all the kings’ horses and all the kings’ men cannot prove that he is not one.",
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        }
      ],
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        "Incompetent."
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  "word": "half-past-six"
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