The phrase "absolutely half" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in a context where you want to emphasize a strong certainty about something being exactly half, though it is unconventional.
Example: "After measuring the ingredients, I can say that the amount of flour is absolutely half of what we need for the recipe."
Alternatives: "completely half" or "entirely half".
if you put any faith in Kenneth Grahame, who wrote, in "The Wind in the Willows," that "there is nothing — absolutely nothing — half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats," is nearly its own reward.
Mackinnon's favourite quote is even about boating, from the book Wind in the Willows: "There is nothing — absolutely nothing — half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats". .
"The comments section of Facebook is going to be people who absolutely hate half the album but love the other half that's how polarizing I think it could be," he says.
As Lawoyin, from Edmonton, north London, has done more race challenges, from the "absolutely beautiful" Kent Coastal half marathon to the Paris half marathon, so the scepticism among her friends has vanished.
Yeah, they're $350, but they sound absolutely amazing; at half volume, you get the same sound you would at full from lesser buds.
Their activities include strenuous races and leisurely messabouts, which get their name from Ratty's remark in "The Wind in the Willows" that "there is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats".
Mr Kendall added: "The snow is absolutely solid about half way up but we're using two rubber-wheeled excavators to help clear a way through". Although trains had travelled to the summit over the last four years during Easter, traditionally the service went only as far as Clogwyn when Easter fell in March.
"An absolutely outrageous first half of football!" he yelped just before the Chiefs missed an extra-point try to leave the score 23-23 gointointo halftime.
"There was absolutely nothing done half way, [Joey was] sprinting out every [hit] attacking every ground ball, taking aggressive swings, and making the game not just about himself but he was picking up his teammates".
In an 1893 article in the Real Estate Record & Guide, Clarence True proclaimed his low-stoop entrance a success, saying that since 1890 "I have designed over 50 houses with what I may call a low-basement entrance and every one of them has sold almost immediately after completion; the high stoop, that is absolutely useless, costs one-half of what is spent on the entire front elevation".
