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half a loaf is better than none
alt. possession or attainment of a partial object, achievement, result, etc is preferable to having no object, achievement, or result at all. prov. possession or attainment of a partial object, achievement, result, etc is preferable to having no object, achievement, or result at all.
Usage examples of "half a loaf is better than none".
But half a loaf is better than none, I would tell myself, and Richard was just a kind of loaf.
But they had beamed to the Guardian planet together, and returned with the look of dubious satisfaction of men concluding that half a loaf is better than none.
Well, half a loaf is better than none, but where in hell could they be?