do by half-measures

English

Verb

do by half-measures (third-person singular simple present does by half-measures, present participle doing by half-measures, simple past did by half-measures, past participle done by half-measures)

1. Alternative form of do by halves
   • 1996, Eknath Easwaran, Seeing with the Eyes of Love:

     Geert Groote, founder of the Brothers and Sisters of the Common Life, was an enormously appealing, highly idiosyncratic figure of tremendous energy and talent – a man who did nothing, ever, by half measures.

   • 2013, Ed Breslin, Brigham Young: A Concise Biography of the Mormon Moses, page 31:

     Brigham Young never did anything by half measures.

   • 2019, Graeme Nicholson, Heidegger on Truth: Its Essence and Its Fate, page 84:

     And therefore it was especially his disdain for mediocrity and for doing things by half measures that made him expect something from the Party, which had promised to do something decisive and to contradict communism effectively.