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Meaning of cut the baby in half | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C2

Definitions

Synonym of split the baby.

Examples

“[…] courts of inquiry have one inevitable end — to cut the baby in half; to settle half way between the employers' final offer and the last trade union demand.”

CEFR level

C2

Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

See also

cut the bullshit cut the cheese cut the cord cut the crap cut the fool cut the Gordian knot