half a loaf is better than no bread

Meaning

1. you should be grateful for sth, even if it is not as good, much, etc. as you really wanted; something is better than nothing

From the same entry

• and a half
• do nothing do anything by halves
• go half and half
• the half of it
• how the other half lives
• too clever, by half
• have a good mind to do
• it's six of one and half a dozen of the other
• time and a half
• half a minute, second
• half past one, two
• half as many, much, again