Steven

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be even Steven(s)

1. slang To have no outstanding debt between one another. All right, here's the $10 I owe you—now we're even Stevens.
2. slang To be completely equal. As a parent, you've got to always make sure things are even Steven between your kids, or they'll get horribly jealous of each other.
See also: even

even Steven

slang Equal in something, especially after repaying a debt. All right, here's the $10 I owe you—now we're even Steven.
See also: even, Steven
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

even Steven

to be even (with someone or something) by having repaid a debt, replied in kind, etc. Bill hit Tom; then Tom hit Bill. Now they are even Steven. Mary paid Ann the $100 she owed her. Ann said, "Good, we are even Steven."
See also: even, Steven
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

even-steven

Exactly equal; also, with nothing due or owed on either side. For example, I've paid it all back, so now we're even-steven. This rhyming phrase is used as an intensive for even. [Mid-1800s]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.

even-Steven

1. mod. evenly divided. He made the two piles of diamonds even-Steven and then let me choose which one I wanted.
2. mod. even; balanced. Now that we’ve given each other black eyes, are we even-Steven?
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
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  • dukes
  • gun
  • guns
  • blimp
  • blimp out
  • brassic lint
  • flash
  • flash on
  • flashing
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"Steven was able to start being the Dad he wanted to be and began to imagine how life could be now Steven was cancer free.
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The trio deny murdering Steven, 27, between June 6 and June 7 last year.
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Steve and Jason had been together for 28 years and close friend Jade Smith said: "Steven died of a broken heart six weeks after Jason."
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His wife also claimed that Steven Pladl would often sleep on the floor of Katie's room in the month before she moved out of their Richmond home.
Adopted Daughter Impregnated By Biological Father After Reconnecting
When the couple broke up, Steven found a new girlfriend but continued to have sex with Charli.
Pregnant woman murdered because the father wasn't ready to be a dad; Steven Capobianco lured his ex-girlfriend to a deadly trap
Steven bowled consistently well in all of his games beating three opponents including Michael Garton, of Scarborough, last year's champion, 9-2.
Twins head to head on the bowling green
Steven, 25, and Elizabeth, 26, of Heaton, Newcastle, say they are over the moon with Steven's arrival.
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Stevens did die, but only after the dispatcher told the Fort Smith, Arkansas, woman to "shut up," chastised her for worrying that the phone call would cut off and berated her for driving into water water the frantic flood victim swore she had not seen.
Drowning woman gets no comfort from dispatcher
It has also completed $1 million-plus renovation converting 117 Stevens Avenue from a single user building into a multi-tenanted building.
GHP transforms former Reuters office building
Mark Stevens, a Warriors' investor and a member of the team's executive board, was banned from the NBA for one year and fined on Thursday-one day after he shoved Lowry during the fourth quarter of Game Three of the Toronto-Golden State finals matchup.
Warriors investor banned for one year, fined $500,000 for Lowry shove
Neither Bart Eeckhout nor Lisa Goldfarb, the editors of Poetry and Poetics after Wallace Stevens, is new to Stevensian studies.
POETRY AND POETICS AFTER WALLACE STEVENS
Poetry and Poetics after Wallace Stevens. New York: Bloomsbury.
Bart Eeckhout and Lisa Goldfarb, eds. 2017. Poetry and Poetics after Wallace Stevens