| To be dressed up to the nines - to be dressed, to be dressed with a needle, to get dressed up and down.
e. g. …with all the women dressed up to the nines I was confident she would not wish to be outshone. But she had on a plain woolen frock (S. Maugham).
To go fifty - fifty - Amer. to split equally, in half, to take part on an equal basis with someone; in half, in half.
e. g. “If you find any money on the way,” said my father, “remember we go fifty-fifty” (W. Saroyan).
He was getting into the spirit of the thing now, and chances were about fifty-fifty he’d do all right as the man from Baghdad (Ibid.).
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