other half
noun1
Idiomatic A spouse or a significant other.
- Near-synonyms: better half (positive valence), ball and chain (negative valence)
- It depends on what my other half says.
1 more example
- Oh, I'm still missing my other half / Oh, it must be something I did in the past1972, Lou Reed, “Goodnight Ladies”, in Transformer:
2
Idiomatic The wealthy; the very wealthy.
- how the other half lives
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see other, half.