Vocabulary

中途半端

halfway; half measures; unfinished; incomplete; by halves; half-baked

na-adjective adj-no noun
freq #19

Example sentences

You may as well not do it at all than do it imperfectly.

I don't like to leave things up in the air.

I'll never do anything by halves.

Don't leave your work half finished.

Don't leave your work unfinished.

You shouldn't do things by halves.

Don't do anything by halves.

One may as well not know a thing at all, as know it but imperfectly.