Phrase info Synonyms

other half

Speech parts

1. other half - Noun

2. other half - Phrase

Meaning

other half (plural other halves)

(idiomatic) A spouse.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone. Emily Brontë

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power. Harriet Martineau

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns. P. L. Travers

One half of the world does not know how the other half lives. German Proverb

One half the world laughs at the other half. German Proverb

It takes half your life to learn who your friends are and the other half to keep them. American Proverb

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