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half a loaf is better than none
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half a loaf is better than none
- Something is better than nothing: some reward, achievement, result, etc. is preferable to none at all.
- 1914, Peter B. Kyne, chapter 16, in The Long Chance:
- "I'm a business man, and I tell you before you're half through with this fight, you'll come to the conclusion that half a loaf is better than none at all—particularly in the matter of extra large loaves. You'll come to me and compromise."
- 1983 Feb. 10, Francis X. Clines, "Reagan's wish is no minimum wage for youths," New York Times (retrieved 6 March 2014):
- "There are some people," he said, "who would have you so stand on principle that if you don't get all that you've asked for from the legislature, why you jump off the cliff with the flag flying." Mr. Reagan said that "a half a loaf is better than none" and that unyielding critics had "misread" his tactics.
- 2010 June 17, Michael Scherer, "The President's Spill Speech: The Target Audiences," Time (retrieved 6 March 2014):
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