in two
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Into two parts.
- They carry a branch half a day, meaning to do great things with it, and then they snap it in two.1894 May, Rudyard Kipling, “Kaa’s Hunting”, in The Jungle Book, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published June 1894, →OCLC, page 47:
- [I]f you can cleave it in two with one stroke of your sword, I will give you my daughter to wife.1900, Andrew Lang, “The Twin Brothers”, in The Grey Fairy Book:
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- [S]outherners are expected to vote overwhelmingly to carve Africa's biggest country in two.2011 January 10, Alex Perry, “Can Sudan Split Without Falling Apart?”, in Time, retrieved 23 Jul 2014:
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Entertainment, Lifestyle, Theater Performed further back than "in one", but still not fully upstage.
- Hyponyms
- asunder