Idiom
split the difference
Meaning
To choose an option or take a position roughly midway between two opposed alternatives; to compromise.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The price is too high, so let's split the difference.”
“We could not agree on a meeting time, so we decided to split the difference and meet at noon.”
“Rather than continuing their long argument over the budget, the two managers agreed to split the difference to ensure the project could move forward.”
Examples
simple
“The price is too high, so let's split the difference.”
contextual
“We could not agree on a meeting time, so we decided to split the difference and meet at noon.”
complex
“Rather than continuing their long argument over the budget, the two managers agreed to split the difference to ensure the project could move forward.”
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