and a half

Meaning

1. Editorial95% of films

   After a number or amount, that quantity plus one half of the same unit (an hour and a half = 1.5 hours).

In the movies · 113

• for four and a half minutes? - I would love that.Barbie2023
• We've been going over this for an hour and a half.The Usual Suspects1995
• What, it's about a six and a half?The Big Chill1983
• Seven and a half.Being John Malkovich1999
• And a half?The Longest Yard2005
• Eight and a half rolls?The Fall Guy2024
• Dollar and a half?Gangs of New York2002
• Four and a half men.The Expendables2010

Learn it in full scenes

• Barbie2023
  • Barbie Rewrites the Doll Story
  • Barbie's Perfect Day in Barbie Land
  • Ken Beaches Off and Gets Hurt

From the same entry

• do nothing do anything by halves
• go half and half
• the half of it
• how the other half lives
• too clever, by half
• have a good mind to do
• it's six of one and half a dozen of the other
• time and a half
• half a loaf is better than no bread
• half a minute, second
• half past one, two
• half as many, much, again