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Half a loaf is better than no free time at all.

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half a loaf is better than none

[half a loaf is better than none] or [half a loaf is better than no bread] Part of what we want or need is better than nothing. - A proverb. […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

better

[better] See: [ALL BETTER], [DISCRETION IS THE BETTER PART OF VALOR], [FOR BETTER OR WORSE], [FOR THE BETTER], [GET THE BETTER OF], [GO SOMEBODY ONE BETTER], [HAD BETTER], [HALF A […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

time and a half

[time and a half] {n. phr.} Pay given to a worker at a rate half again as much as he usually gets. * /John got time and a half when […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

half-time

[half-time] {n.} A rest period in the middle of certain games. * /I saw Henry at the football game and I went over and talked to him at half-time./ * […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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дырка от бублика

[ды́рка от бу́блика] {n. phr.} [`dyirka ot `bubl'ika] {literally} a boublik's (donut's) hole - […]

poles apart

[poles apart] {adj.} Completely different. * /The two brothers were poles apart in personality./ * / It was hard for the […]

Shirley Conran

(1932--) U.S. novelist, Superwoman, 1975. Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.

give one a ring

[give one a ring] also {informal} [give a buzz] To call on the telephone. * /Mrs. Jacobs promised to give her husband a ring […]