down the middle

idiom

: into two equal parts
Slice the banana right down the middle.

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Shark eyes… Her arm split down the middle to the elbow, and this time the pain reached all the way to the deepest part of her mind. William Earl, Variety, 1 Oct. 2024 The overall hair do was cropped to the head, with glossy, shiny bangs split down the middle, with a length that tapers shorter toward the edges of her face. Aamina Inayat Khan, StyleCaster, 26 Sep. 2024 Key Background Though Wall Street was all but certain the Fed would announce its first rate cut since March 2020 on Wednesday, the market was split almost down the middle on whether the Fed would cut by 25 or 50 basis points. Derek Saul, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024 The issue is polarizing, but not down the middle and not strictly along party lines. Benjamin Case, The Conversation, 18 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for down the middle 

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“Down the middle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/down%20the%20middle. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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