Brewer's: Better

My better half. A jocose way of saying my wife. As the twain are one, each is half. Horace calls his friend animæ dimidium meæ. (1 Odes iii. 8.)

To be better than his word.
To do more than he promised. To think better of the matter. To give it further consideration; to form a more correct opinion respecting it.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
Better kind Friend, etc
Betrothed
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