English term
You don't know the half of it.
used in negative sentences to say that a situation is worse or more complicated than somebody thinks
Jun 3, 2023 12:56: writeaway changed "Field" from "Art/Literary" to "Other" , "Field (write-in)" from "Idioms:" to "Expression"
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Proposed translations
Spain
Lawyer and Translator
Native in: Spanish 
Works in: French to Spanish, English to Spanish, Italian to Spanish, and 4 more.
tu n'en sais que la moitié / tu ne connais pas toute l'histoire
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Susana E. Cano Méndez
1 day 34 mins
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Gracias Susana
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Francois Boye
: this expression isn't a French idiom
2 days 7 hrs
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Morocco
Business, Marketing and Finance expert.
Native in: French (Variants: African, Luxembourgish, Standard-France, Swiss, Belgian, Moroccan)
Works in: English to French, French to English
Tu n’as pas idée.
Native in: English 
, French
Works in: English to French, French to English, German to French, and 4 more.
vous ne croyez pas si bien dire
France
44 years of technical and legal texts
Native in: German (Variant: Germany) , French
Works in: French to German, English to German, German to French, and 1 more.
si vous saviez ... / si tu savais ...
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Florence Piquemal
: Mais plus de contexte serait effectivement appréciable
1 day 17 hrs
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tu n'en sais même pas la moitié
https://context.reverso.net/translation/french-english/n'en ...
pire que ça, ...
Translate more than words: their spirit
Native in: French , English (Variants: British, UK, US)
Works in: English to French, French to English
Tu ignores tout de cette histoire
France
Au Plus près des mots et des cultures
Native in: French , German
Works in: German to French, English to French, French to German, and 2 more.
"tu ne peux pas imaginer !" " cela dépasse l'entendement "
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France
Fluid and original translation!
Native in: French
Works in: Italian to French, English to French, French
Tu ne sais pas la moitié de ce qu'il se passe.
Reference comments
Greece
EnFrGreek Medical/Legal/Mechanical
Native in: Greek (Variant: Modern) , Greek (Ancient) (Variants: Koine (common), Doric, Homeric, Ionic, Aeolic)
Works in: French to Greek, Greek to French, English to Greek, and 5 more.
You Don't know the half of it - Tammy Wynette - 1979
Love is cruel, Love is a lie, should of seen it in your eyes, should of known.
What you steal you cannot keep now you say it cuts so deep but you're on your own, you're on your own.
You don't know the half of it, you never should of let me go.
Because you don't know the half of it.
You never should of let me down.
Because you don't know the half of it.
I don't know what I've been told that we never grow strong that we never grow old; gotta let it go.
Now it's time to sink or swim looking back at the mess were in where you let it roll; you let it roll.
You don't know the half of it, you never should of let me go.
Because you don't know the half of it, you never should of let me down.
You don't know the half of it, you never should of let me go.
Because you don't know the half of it, you never should of let me down.
You don't know the half of it, you never should of let me go.
Because you don't know the half of it, you never should of let me down.
Because you don't know the half of it.
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