What does half the story mean?

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half the story

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.13 in modern English

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half-truth the half of it hear both sides there are two sides to every story

half-truth the half of it hear both sides there are two sides to every story bothsidesism

What does half the story mean?: An incomplete or one-sided version of events.

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