the half of it

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   used in negative sentences to say that a situation is worse or more complicated than sb thinks

   You don't know the half of it.

In the movies · 18

• And you only know the half of it, Hank.Ant-Man2015
• I didn't understand the half of it.The Mist2007
• You don't know the half of it.Deuces Wild2002
• You don't know the half of it.The Game Plan2007
• What's the half of it?Spotlight2015
• That's not the half of it.Loving Vincent2017
• Long day, huh? You don't know the half of it.This Means War2012
• Yeah, you don't know the half of it. All right, come on, zipperhead.Gran Torino2008

Learn it in full scenes

• The Mist2007
  • The Mist Reaches the Store
  • David Argues With His Neighbor
  • David Argues the Mist Is Real
• Spotlight2015
  • Baron Meets Robinson for a Drink
  • Marty Baron's First News Meeting
  • Lawyers Break Down the Geoghan Case

From the same entry

• and a half
• do nothing do anything by halves
• go half and half
• 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

More idioms

• stay put
• all at once
• that makes two of us
• for the moment
• don't tell me
• get moving
• thumbs up
• hit the road
• watch your mouth
• give five
• get a load of
• to god