take one's half out of the middle

== English == === Etymology === From the practice of driving too close to the center of a two-way road, so that the remaining half of the road is split on both sides of you, leaving vehicles that are going the other way with no usable space on which to drive. === Pronunciation === === Verb === take one's half out of the middle (third-person singular simple present takes one's half out of the middle, present participle taking one's half out of the middle, simple past took one's half out of the middle, past participle taken one's half out of the middle) To take the portion of something to which one is entitled, but in such a way that it shortchanges others.