half the time

idiom

informal

: very often

Half the time I have no idea what my professor is talking about.

Examples of half the time in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Microsoft rolled out a flexible work policy after offices reopened from pandemic closures where employees were permitted to work from home up to half the time without official approval. —Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2025

Microsoft previously had a policy, dating back to the Covid-19 pandemic, that allowed most employees to work from home half the time without manager approval. —Kif Leswing, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2025

Participants were asked to imagine either a left-sloping or right-sloping pattern in their mind’s eye while viewing the screen and were then asked to indicate whether one of the patterns was actually being displayed (which was true exactly half the time). —Simon Makin, Scientific American, 5 Sep. 2025

Tests of defenses against long-range missiles have failed about half the time. —William Hartung, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025

Rhymes for half the time

• aforetime
• allozyme
• anytime
• christmastime
• cybercrime
• dinnertime
• guggenheim
• isozyme
• lysozyme
• maritime
• mesenchyme
• overtime