Expressions (A–Z)

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  Half-hearing / half-listening

  See: “listen with half an ear.”

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• Half-heartedly

  See: "with half a mouth."

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  Half-spoken / hesitantly / with uncertainty in speech

  Figuratively: speaking hesitantly; in a weak or uncertain speech (origin in Aram...

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• Half-truth

  Information that combines truth and falsehood, presented to create a distorted a...

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• Half-truths

  See: "half-truth."

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  Halfheartedly/ insincerely

  Figuratively: His mouth and his heart were not equal. He did not intend what he...

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• Ham sinned and Canaan was cursed/ one sin and the other is punished (said when a person is punished for others' sins)

  Figuratively, in a literary style: one person sinned, and another was punished?!

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• Hammer Wine

  (slang) low-quality wine that may cause a headache.

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• Hand in hand

  In question: in unison. From the action partner.

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• Hand on the Heart

  See: "with hand on the heart".

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