other half

noun

1. the people of an economic class clearly different from one's own or from that to which reference is being made:

   a glimpse of how the other half lives.

2. Informal. one's spouse.

Example Sentences

The other half of America will feel the hurt later, when tariffed toilet paper costs $10 a roll and lettuce is sold by the leaf because there are only 10 documented workers left in the country to pick the stuff.

From Los Angeles Times

Zuckerberg has a history of elaborote displays of affection for his other half.

From BBC

But following personal battles between Stephens and the other half of the duo - Harley Alexander-Sule - Rizzle Kicks took a hiatus that ended up lasting eight years.

From BBC

Whatever the result, roughly one half of the country is about to discover that the other half has a completely different sense of what America requires.

From BBC

Despite the fact-checkers’ best efforts to appeal to everyone by sticking to the facts, half the country seemingly pays no attention at all to their work, and the other half just gets frustrated that the fact-checkers’ inherent “view from nowhere” can sometimes lead them to falsely equate picayune Democratic exaggerations with the fundamental moral rot that infects the heart of Trumpist Republican politics.

From Slate

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