deserve better from (someone or something)
deserve better from (someone or something)
To warrant better treatment from someone or something than one is currently receiving. I'm sorry, but you deserve better from your husband—he shouldn't speak to you so rudely. With how hard you work every day, you deserve better from your employer.
See also: better, deserve
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
deserve better from someone or something
to merit better treatment from someone. We deserve better from someone who is supposed to be our friend. I deserve better from Bill.
See also: better, deserve
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
- deserve better from
- give (someone or something) best
- give someone or something best
- the better for something
- (all) the better for (something)
- make a better fist of (something)
- the better half of (something)
- the better part of (something)
- the better/best part of something
- ideally