Meaning: behalf

bɪ'hɑːf
n.
as the agent of or on someone's part (usually expressed as "on behalf of" rather than "in behalf of")for someone's benefit (usually expressed as `in behalf' rather than `on behalf' and usually with a possessive)

your better other half Idiom, Proverb

all over hell's half acre

all over the place, everywhere I left the gate open, and the cows are all over hell's half acre.

better half

spouse, wife or husband Bring your better half when you visit us. We'd like to meet her.

don't know the half of it

do not know all the facts, have not heard all of it Yes, they got divorced, but you don't know the half of it.

go off half-cocked

act or speak before being ready He always goes off half-cocked when he is at a meeting.

half assed

incomplete, half missing There's a guy at the door with a half-assed invention for sale.

half-baked

foolish I didn

half cocked

(See go off half cocked)

half corked

half drunk, buzzed, feeling no pain Andy was at the bar for awhile. He's half corked.

half cut

(See half corked)

half hearted

using half your ability, not giving enough effort He made a half-hearted attempt to find our luggage: one phone call.

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hairdo hale and hearty hale fellow, well met half assed half-baked half cocked half corked half cut half hearted half lit half-pint half shot half snapped half the battle ham ham hands ham it up

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