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

Filming without consent in certain circumstances is a Class 5 felony, punishable by up to two and a half years in prison. —Rey Covarrubias Jr, AZCentral.com, 11 Nov. 2025

Everything crystallized in 1984, when Fox landed the lead role in the supernatural coming-of-age farce Teen Wolf, renewed his contract for season 3 of Family Ties, and got the call to meet with Zemeckis and Spielberg about a little film already a month and a half into production. —Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Nov. 2025

England have not won a Test match down under in a decade and a half but Broad, speaking on his For The Love of Cricket podcast, remains bullish. —Darren Richman, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2025

For two and a half decades, fashion e-commerce has barely changed. —Amy O’Brien, Vogue, 11 Nov. 2025

Rhymes for and a half

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