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As a non-native speaker this sentence actually got me a bit unsure (perhaps because I looked too much at it):

"Buy one, get the second half off."

Is that meant as the second unit you buy, you get half off? Don't know if this is a common way to phrase a discount like that in the US..



Yes and yes. You interpreted it correctly, and that is a common way to phrase such discounts in the U.S.


Not a native speaker either, but I spent a fair amount of time in the US and Canada; and I don't think I've ever heard that phrase. Usually it's "buy one, get one free" or some variation of that.

The phrase you mentioned would mean that you receive 2 units and pay for 1.5.


ISTM basic English comprehension was part of this test? That isn't a common idiom as compared to BOGOF, but one will see it sometimes.




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