and a half

idiom

1

—used in measurements of time, distance, weight, etc., to indicate one half of the stated unit of measurement

My daughter is two and a half (years old).

The fish was a foot and a half long.

weighs ten and a half pounds

2

informal

—used to say that something is very good, large, difficult, etc.

That was a meal and a half!

Renovating a house is a job and a half.

Examples of and a half in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In addition, these races start (on average) at 7500 feet elevation (a mile and a half high) which means less oxygen to handle all that stress. —Tim Genske, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026

Then, about an hour and a half after Siters left for the hospital, Tabron got a call from someone willing to help. —Erica Mokay, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2026

In just a season and a half, Enfield has completely revived the Mustangs and helped carry them through a difficult transition to college basketball’s premier conference in the ACC. —Lia Assimakopoulos, Dallas Morning News, 26 Jan. 2026

After nearly a year and a half without a permanent leader as pro-Palestinian protests and extraordinary federal scrutiny rocked its campus, Columbia University on Sunday tapped Jennifer Mnookin, the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as its next president. —Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 26 Jan. 2026

Rhymes for and a half

• autograph
• biograph
• cenotaph
• chronograph
• epigraph
• epitaph
• hodograph
• holograph
• hydrograph
• lithograph
• micrograph
• monograph