Nghĩa là gì: loaf

loaf /louf/

danh từ, số nhiều loaves /louvz/
- ổ bánh mì
- cối đường (khối đường hình nón)
- bắp cuộn (khối lá cuộn tròn chặt lại của cải bắp hay rau diếp)
- (từ lóng) cái đầu
- half a loaf is better than no bread
  - có ít còn hơn không
- loaves and fishes
  - bổng lộc
- to use one's loaf
  - vận dụng sự hiểu biết lẽ phải của mình

nội động từ
- cuộn thành bắp (cải bắp hay rau diếp...)

danh từ
- sự đi chơi rong; sự lười nhác
  - to be on the loaf: đi chơi rong

động từ
- đi tha thẩn, chơi rong; lười nhác

half a loaf is better than no loaf Thành ngữ, tục ngữ

light in the loafers

homosexual, gay, fag Just because he likes to sew, you think he's light in the loafers.

pinch off a loaf

have a bowel movement, drop a log """Where were you?"" ""In the can, pinching off a loaf."""

three slices short (of a full loaf)

mentally disabled, one brick short... If you order worm soup, they'll think you're three slices short.

Half a loaf is better than none.

You should be grateful for something, even if it's not as much as you wanted.

A slice off a cut loaf is never missed

Used colloquially to describe having sexual intercourse with someone who is not a virgin, especially when they are in a relationship. The analogy refers to a loaf of bread; it is not readily apparent, once the end has been removed, exactly how many slices have been taken.('You never miss a slice from a cut loaf' is also used.)

Use Your Loaf

Use your head. Think smart.

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Part of what we want or need is better than nothing.

A proverb. Albert wanted two dollars for shoveling snow from the sidewalk but the lady would only give him a dollar. And he said that half a loaf is better than none.
Compare: BETTER LATE THAN NEVER.

half a loaf is better than none

half a loaf is better than none
Something is better than nothing, even if it is less than one wanted. For example, He had asked for a new trumpet but got a used one—oh well, half a loaf is better than none. This expression, often shortened, was already a proverb in 1546, where it was explicitly put: “For better is half a loaf than no bread.”

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nửa ổ bánh còn hơn bất có ổ bánh

Nhận ít hơn những gì người ta muốn còn hơn bất nhận được gì cả. Tôi biết họ cung cấp cho bạn ít trước hơn bạn mong đợi, nhưng ít nhất đó là một công chuyện tốt — nửa ổ bánh còn hơn bất có ổ .. Xem thêm: tốt hơn, một nửa, ổ bánh, không. Xem thêm:

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living end, the living soul load load off one's feet load off one's mind, a load the dice loaded question loaf loan loath local yokel lock the barn door after the horse has bolted

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