Half-way

Don't cry trouble half-way.

There were so few proper members in the badminton club that it was half-way between dead and 'on break'.

Tom began to miss Mary half-way, and turned back.

The holiday was, by now, more than half-way over.

Tom is in a half-way house.

Returning back to the Arabic vowel system (Figure 4), it falls half-way between the English and Spanish systems.