the best/better part of something

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishthe best/better part of somethingthe best/better part of somethingMOSTnearly all of something We waited for the best part of an hour. → partExamples from the Corpusthe best/better part of something• Converse drank the better part of the rum.• Another child makes the family wretched with his crying for the better part of an hour.• This was it, the confrontation-point which he had been dreading for the best part of a week.• For the better part of the next forty years they were to be the decisive restraints.• Almost any child will assert that recess is the best part of the school day.• I spent the better part of my time moping around the house, too dejected to think about practicing my stunts.• It is not widely taught or particularly popular be-cause it takes the better part of a lifetime to master.

单词	the best/better part of something
释义	the best/better part of something From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishthe best/better part of somethingthe best/better part of somethingMOSTnearly all of something We waited for the best part of an hour. → partExamples from the Corpusthe best/better part of something• Converse drank the better part of the rum.• Another child makes the family wretched with his crying for the better part of an hour.• This was it, the confrontation-point which he had been dreading for the best part of a week.• For the better part of the next forty years they were to be the decisive restraints.• Almost any child will assert that recess is the best part of the school day.• I spent the better part of my time moping around the house, too dejected to think about practicing my stunts.• It is not widely taught or particularly popular be-cause it takes the better part of a lifetime to master.
随便看	the like of the like of somebody/something the likes of the likes of somebody/something the limbo the linchpin of the linchpin of something the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts the line of least resistance the line/path of least resistance the links the lion's den the lion's share the lion's share of the lions den the lions share the lions share of the lion’s den the lion’s share (of something) the literati the little the little (that) the little matter of the little people the little that