better half

(one's) better half

One's spouse or romantic partner. I'd love to come out with you guys after work, but I'd better check in with my better half to make sure we don't have any plans for this evening. The work retreat is meant to be for couples, so be sure to bring your better half!

better half

1. Also, better part. The larger amount or majority of something, as in I won't be long; the better half of this job is complete, or I have spent the better part of my life in this city. Sir Philip Sidney used the first term in Arcadia (1580): "I ... shall think the better half of it already achieved." The variant appears in a well-known proverb, discretion is the better part of valor.

2. Also, my better half. One's (my) spouse, as in I'm not sure if we can go; I'll have to check with my better half. Originally this expression meant "a close friend or lover," and by the 16th century it referred to either a wife or lover. Sidney used it in this way, again in Arcadia: "My dear, my better half (said he), I find I must now leave thee." Today it tends to be used lightly for either husband or wife. "Late 1500s"

better half, my

My spouse, usually referring to one’s wife. The term dates from the sixteenth century and originally signified a close friend or lover. Indeed, much earlier the Roman poet Horace called his friend animae dimidium meae, describing an intimacy in which two friends are considered the halves of one whole. The Elizabethans used it for a wife (Sir Philip Sidney in Arcadia, 1590) or lover (Shakespeare, Sonnet 39, ca. 1600). It continued to be used seriously through the eighteenth century and then began to be used more in a jocular or ironic way, as it is today.

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释义	better half (one's) better half One's spouse or romantic partner. I'd love to come out with you guys after work, but I'd better check in with my better half to make sure we don't have any plans for this evening. The work retreat is meant to be for couples, so be sure to bring your better half! See also: better, half Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. better half 1. Also, better part. The larger amount or majority of something, as in I won't be long; the better half of this job is complete, or I have spent the better part of my life in this city. Sir Philip Sidney used the first term in Arcadia (1580): "I ... shall think the better half of it already achieved." The variant appears in a well-known proverb, discretion is the better part of valor. 2. Also, my better half. One's (my) spouse, as in I'm not sure if we can go; I'll have to check with my better half. Originally this expression meant "a close friend or lover," and by the 16th century it referred to either a wife or lover. Sidney used it in this way, again in Arcadia: "My dear, my better half (said he), I find I must now leave thee." Today it tends to be used lightly for either husband or wife. "Late 1500s" See also: better, half The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. better half, my My spouse, usually referring to one’s wife. The term dates from the sixteenth century and originally signified a close friend or lover. Indeed, much earlier the Roman poet Horace called his friend animae dimidium meae, describing an intimacy in which two friends are considered the halves of one whole. The Elizabethans used it for a wife (Sir Philip Sidney in Arcadia, 1590) or lover (Shakespeare, Sonnet 39, ca. 1600). It continued to be used seriously through the eighteenth century and then began to be used more in a jocular or ironic way, as it is today. See also: better The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer See also: (one's) better half halves one’s better half one's better half so much the better all to the better all the better better half, my (one) (had) better be off make a better fist of (something) References in periodicals archive "Ethan (Ethan Choi) receives shocking news about his sister, Emily (Arden Cho)," the synopsis for "Be My Better Half" states. Will Natalie Ruin Her Relationship On 'Chicago Med'? Separatists operating from the Niger Delta spent the better half of 2016 attacking oil facilities in the region to protest Lagos' negligent attitude towards the residents of the land used to generate a majority of government revenues. NIGERIAN OIL PRODUCTION TO STAND 2.2M BPD BY JUNE Our favorite: Califia Farms, which makes a Better Half line (Original or Unsweetened) and an Almond-milk Creamer line (Unsweetened, Vanilla, Hazelnut, or Pecan Caramel). You're the Cream in My Coffee .. 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Such Gup The company--headquartered in Salem but with its major facilities in England and Ireland--did have a better half than in 2013, when it lost $1.5 million. Prophotonix reports a smaller loss in first half I do it alone because my not-so-better half can't deal with the fact I take my time and think about what I actually need/want for the days ahead (what a nightmare, eh?) Unlike some (him) I don't just buy what I think I need and then leave my better half to throw it out days later. Shop the Burberry SS14 collection at Tesco...and no I'm not off my trolley; NORTHERN FASHION His other literary credits include The Better Half: The Emancipation of the American Woman, for which he won the Somerset Maugham Prize in 1967, and the biographies of iconic figures including revolutionary Che Guevara, writer Jack London and artist Francis Bacon. ICONIC MOVIE WAS DEBUT So on the polar expedition went as I shouted to my better half clothes-shopping on the netbook in the warmth of the living room, "I'm going inside and I may be some time!" Next up were some abandoned ice pops from a good summer one year, a bag of some yellow things on sticks (unidentified), some Linda McCartney pies which I'm sure were bought when she was alive and finally, salvation... Now I don't need [...] I can't shout at the kids so at home my better half becomes the bed-time baddy. . AS is customary at [...]; Susan Lee Telling it like it is This month, three dancers from Lucky Plush Productions and two performers from physical theater company 500 Clown band together for a performance of Julia Rhoads (a 2010 "25 to Watch") and Leslie Buxbaum Danzig's The Better Half. This evocative new LPP work is based on George Cukor's 1944 melodrama Gaslight, which features Ingrid Bergman as a young woman manipulated into insanity by her obsessive, murderous husband. 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