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better half

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somebody's better/other half  (old-fashioned)
someone's husband or wife or the person with whom they have a romantic relationship I should think 3.30 on Wednesday will be fine but I'd better check with my other half.
See also: better, half


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Simpson, who was decidedly Abner's better half, took in washing and went out to do days' cleaning, and the town helped in the feeding and clothing of the children.
So we descended the hill to my small, old cottage, and shut ourselves up in the south-eastern room, where the sunshine comes in, warmly and brightly, through the better half of a winter's day.
The war to you is a thing of paper, an abstraction--that same war which has turned the better half of my beloved country into a lurid corner of hell.
 
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