English leaving figures with half quotas in unchanged condition (6,3)
I believe the answer is:
status quo
'unchanged condition' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both states of affairs as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?
'english leaving figures with half quotas' is the wordplay.
'english leaving figures' becomes 'status' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'half' means to take half the letters.
'quotas' cut in half is 'quo'.
'status'+'quo'='STATUS QUO'
'in' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for status quo that I've seen before include "Oust squat to restore existing state of affairs" , "The existing situation - in Latin" , "The existing state of affairs, as things are" , "The current situation" , "Existing state of affairs; rock group" .)