do anything by halves



not do anything/things by halves

if you do not do things by halves, you always make a lot of effort and do things very well 'I didn't realise you were decorating the whole house!' 'Oh, we don't do things by halves round here.'
See also: anything, halves

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Genadi-Bulgarian, Georgian
Batsheva-Hebrew
Doruk-Turkish
Waramunt-Ancient Germanic
Sabinesa-BEEN (French), za-BEE-nə (German)French, German
Martinamahr-TEE-nah (Italian, Spanish, Dutch), mahr-TEEN-ə (English)German, Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Slovene, English, Swedish, Dutch, Ancien