you can't be a little bit pregnant
proverb You either are pregnant or you aren't. Thus, this phrase is used of situations that are clearly and definitively one way and not another. If we choose to break off from the company and establish our own firm, then that's what we have to commit to—you can't be a little bit pregnant, you understand?
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