and a half

phrase

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

The corridor that connects Ventura, Oxnard and Point Mugu State Park also got hit with heavier rain, with most of the area seeing half an inch to an inch and a half. — Blanca Begert, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2026

Price has gone sideways for a week and a half while RSI cooled, and the stock didn't give any ground. — Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 2 Nov. 2026

That may not sound like a lot to you, sir, but, in a colony of one and a half million, that’s fifteen thousand bats. — Téa Obreht, New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2026

In the first year and a half the training was offered, Medicare paid claims that benefited about 9,600 recipients, an AARP study found. — Raginee Sudhir Chaurey, CNN Money, 1 Nov. 2026

Rhymes for and a half

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