better

Related to better: Better Business Bureau
See:
  • (all) the better for (something)
  • (all) the better to (do something)
  • (it's) better to be a live dog than a dead lion
  • (it's) better to be late than be dead on time
  • (one had) better be going
  • (one had) better get moving
  • (one had) better get on (one's) horse
  • (one) (had) better be off
  • (one) (had) better hit the road
  • (one's) better half
  • (one's) better nature
  • (someone had) better keep quiet about it
  • (someone had) better keep still about it
  • (something) is better than nothing
  • a (damn) sight better
  • a (damn) sight worse
  • a bad excuse is better than none
  • a better mousetrap
  • a live dog is better than a dead lion
  • a living dog is better than a dead lion
  • a notch better than (someone or something)
  • a sight better, worse, etc.
  • against (one's) better judgment
  • against one's better judgment
  • against your better judgement
  • all better
  • all better (now)
  • all the
  • all the better
  • all the more reason for
  • all to the better
  • Are you feeling better?
  • bad excuse is better than none
  • be better off
  • be better off dead
  • be better placed
  • be better than a kick in the pants
  • be ideally placed
  • be well placed
  • be well, ideally, better, etc. placed for something/to do something
  • better (oneself)
  • better (to be) safe than sorry
  • better a dollar earned than ten inherited
  • better be an old man's darling than a young man's slave
  • better be going
  • better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion
  • better bend than break
  • better dead than red
  • better fish to fry
  • better get moving
  • better get on my horse
  • better get used to it
  • better half
  • better half, my
  • Better keep still about it
  • better late than never
  • better left unsaid
  • better luck next time
  • better mousetrap, (if one can) build a
  • better of
  • better off
  • better off than (someone)
  • better safe than sorry
  • better than
  • better than a kick in the pants
  • better than a kick in the teeth
  • better than a poke in the eye (with a sharp stick)
  • better than nothing
  • better than sex
  • better the devil you know
  • better the devil you know than the devil you don't
  • better the devil you know than the devil you don't know
  • better the devil you know than the one you don't know
  • better things to do
  • better to ask the way than go astray
  • better you than me
  • brain is better than brawn
  • build a better mousetrap
  • change for the better
  • could be better
  • couldn't be better
  • deserve better from
  • deserve better from (someone or something)
  • devil you know is better than the devil you don't know, the
  • discretion is the better part of valor
  • discretion is the better part of valour
  • do (one) one better
  • do better to (do something)
  • do better to do something
  • easier said than done
  • elders and betters
  • even better
  • everyone can find fault, few can do better
  • example is better than precept
  • fish to fry, to have better/bigger/other
  • for better or (for) worse
  • for better or for worse
  • for better or worse
  • for the better
  • for want of a better word
  • foresight is better than hindsight
  • get better
  • get the better of
  • get the better of (someone or something)
  • get the better of somebody/something
  • go on to a better land
  • go one better
  • go one better (than someone or something)
  • go you one better
  • had better
  • had better (do something)
  • had better/best do something
  • half a loaf is better than no bread
  • half a loaf is better than no loaf
  • half a loaf is better than none
  • half a loaf is better than none/no bread
  • have known better days
  • have seen better days
  • have seen/known better days
  • have the better of (someone or something)
  • health is better than wealth
  • heaps
  • heaps better, more, older, etc.
  • I couldn't have said it better myself
  • is better than nothing
  • it is better to be born lucky than rich
  • it is better to give than to receive
  • it is better to travel hopefully than to arrive
  • It is better to wear out than to rust out
  • it's better to ask forgiveness than permission
  • I've seen better
  • I've seen better heads on nickel beers
  • kiss (something) better
  • kiss something better
  • know better
  • know better than
  • less said , the better
  • little better than
  • little/no better than
  • make a better door than a window
  • make a better fist of (something)
  • make a better, good, poor, etc. fist of something
  • make a poor fist of (something)
  • might as well
  • never (been) better
  • never been better
  • never felt better
  • no better than
  • no better than (one) ought to be
  • no better than (one) should be
  • no better than you should be
  • not know (any) better
  • not know any better
  • notch above
  • old enough to know better
  • one’s better half
  • one's better half
  • other fish to fry
  • persuasion is better than force
  • prevention is better than cure
  • seen better
  • seen better days
  • seen better days, have
  • seen better days, to have
  • sight better
  • so much the better
  • so much the better/worse
  • sooner the better
  • sooner the better, the
  • take a turn for the better
  • take a turn for the better/worse
  • that's better
  • the better for something
  • the better half of (something)
  • the better of (someone or something)
  • the better part of (something)
  • the better to
  • the better/best part of something
  • the bigger, faster, etc. the better
  • the bigger/faster/etc. the better
  • the half is better than the whole
  • the least said, the better
  • the less said, the better
  • the less/least said, the better
  • the sooner the better
  • the the better
  • think (the) better of (one)
  • think better of
  • think better of it/(something)
  • think better of it/of doing something
  • think better of somebody
  • this (had) better be good
  • time to hit the road
  • 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all
  • Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
  • turn for the better
  • two heads are better than one
  • You better believe it!
  • You had better believe it!
  • you make a better door than you do a window
  • you('d) better believe it
  • you/you'd better believe it!
  • you'd better believe it
  • your better half
  • your better nature
  • your better/other half
  • your elders and betters
  • your other half
References in classic literature
Can I not recall you-- forgive me again!--to a better course?
Tale Of Two Cities
Verily, better to have done evilly than to have thought pettily!
Thus Spake Zarathustra
Yes, Polemarchus, but surely not in the use of money; for you do not want a just man to be your counsellor the purchase or sale of a horse; a man who is knowing about horses would be better for that, would he not?
Republic
"I suppose I should have said 'Luly and I,' in that case, and 'that sort of things' and 'rightly,' though 'correctly' would have been a better word, I guess."
Eight Cousins
Know, you young greenhorn, that I was covered with honours before ever you were born; and you are nothing better than a wretched little worm, torn in two with coughing, and dying slowly of your own malice and unbelief.
The Idiot
'Of course it would be all the better,' she said: 'but it wouldn't be all the better his being punished.'
Through the Looking Glass
"I could hit out better than most men at Oxford, and yet I believe you would knock me into next week if I were to have a baltle with you."
Adam Bede
Perhaps if other people knew so much of the profit went to the glory of God, they might like it better. But I don't mind so much about that--I could get up a pretty row, if I chose."
Middlemarch
G., in a tone which implied that her indignation would fizz and ooze a little, though she was determined to keep it corked up, "you'd far better hold your tongue.
The Mill on the Floss
Before we reached home, Catherine's displeasure softened into a perplexed sensation of pity and regret, largely blended with vague, uneasy doubts about Linton's actual circumstances, physical and social: in which I partook, though I counselled her not to say much; for a second journey would make us better judges.
Wuthering Heights
talk not so gloomily, so cruelly, this morning--your whole countenance contradicts your melancholy speech, and you are better--indeed you are;--you must be better."
Imagination and Heart
Ask them that if two chronometers ain't better than one, then how can two thousand be better than one?
Michael Brother of Jerry
Since the objects of imitation are men in action, and these men must be either of a higher or a lower type (for moral character mainly answers to these divisions, goodness and badness being the distinguishing marks of moral differences), it follows that we must represent men either as better than in real life, or as worse, or as they are.
Poetics of Aristotle
"He was a cheerful man, poor soul; and thoughtful of us, too: he never came in and stared at meal-times; the rest of 'em help us, and scold us -- all he ever said was, better luck next time." So they stood and talked of him, and looked at his house and grounds and moved off clumsily by twos and threes, with the dim sense that the sight of his pleasant face would never comfort them again.
No Name
There was another family living actually held for Edmund; but though this circumstance had made the arrangement somewhat easier to Sir Thomas's conscience, he could not but feel it to be an act of injustice, and he earnestly tried to impress his eldest son with the same conviction, in the hope of its producing a better effect than anything he had yet been able to say or do.
Mansfield Park