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game of two halves

game of two halves noun: something that makes a major turnaround over the course of its lifespan.

Noun

game of two halves (plural games of two halves)

  1. Something that makes a major turnaround over the course of its lifespan.
    • In a few minutes they would be reporting their performances for Vijay's spreadsheet, and Doug would be almost certain to say it had been a game of two halves. Well, it had been for him at least. Nick had been losing all night, but looking across the table it seemed that Doug was back where he'd...2011, Tom Campbell, Fold, →ISBN, page 105
    • The Conservative century was therefore a game of two halves with regard to the procedures for defining parliamentary constituencies.2011, David Gilbert, David Matless, Brian Short, Geographies of British Modernity: Space and Society in the Twentieth Century, →ISBN

Examples of game of two halves in a sentence

  • In a few minutes they would be reporting their performances for Vijay's spreadsheet, and Doug would be almost certain to say it had been a game of two halves.2011, Tom Campbell, Fold, →ISBN, page 105:
  • We also understand why Dracula is a game of two halves: the first half (the attack) takes us from the Natural to the Unnatural path; the second half takes us back.2001, Fred Botting, The Gothic, →ISBN, page 78:

Forms of game of two halves

pluralgames of two halves

Origin of game of two halves

From football (soccer) commentary in the late 1980s.

Questions about game of two halves

What does game of two halves mean?
Game of two halves means something that makes a major turnaround over the course of its lifespan.
How do you use game of two halves in a sentence?
In a few minutes they would be reporting their performances for Vijay's spreadsheet, and Doug would be almost certain to say it had been a game of two halves.
What part of speech is game of two halves?
Game of two halves is a noun.
What is the plural of game of two halves?
The plural of game of two halves is games of two halves.

Words near game of two halves in the dictionary

  1. game of gotcha
  2. Game of Life
  3. game of skill
  4. game of the goose
  5. game of Troy
  6. game of two halves
  7. game on
  8. game out
  9. game over
  10. game overed
  11. game overing

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