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СЕРЕДИНКА НА ПОЛОВИНКУ (НА ПОЛОВИНКЕ) СЕРЕДИНА НА ПОЛОВИНУ (НА ПОЛОВИНЕ) СЕРЁДКА НА ПОЛОВИНКУ (НА ПОЛОВИНКЕ, НА ПОЛОВИНУ, НА ПОЛОВИНЕ) all coll NP these forms only fixed WO

1. ( usu. subj-compl with copula ( subj: any noun)) a person (a thing etc) does not possess the distinguishing characteristics of either of the two (expressed or implied) extremes, is somewhere in the middle: (when the two extremes are specified by the preceding context) neither this nor that

neither one nor the other something (somewhere) in between (when used in refer, to a qualitative evaluation) ordinary just average middling run-of-the-mill commonplace.

Тебе могут говорить разное, умное и глупое и серёдка на половинку... (Аксёнов 1). People may tell you different things, wise and foolish and neither one nor the other... (1a).

(Таня:) Думаете, очень из себя хороши? (Григорий:) А что, неприятен? (Таня:) Так, ни приятен, ни неприятен, а серёдка на половину (Толстой 3). (Т.:) Think you're beautiful, do you? (G.:) What-ugly, am I? (T.:) Not ugly. Not handsome. Just average (3b).

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adv

neither poorly nor well, in a mediocre fashion: (only) so-so

not great fair to middling.

Экзамены Саша сдал серединка на половинку. Sasha did only so-so on his exams.