Of course, we must hope that it will lead to permanent employment, but half a loaf is better than none.
But, as he says, half a loaf is better than none.
Quite rightly, he responded on the basis that half a loaf is better than none at all.
It would have been nice to have had a whole loaf, but half a loaf is better than none.
In politics, half a loaf is better than none.
I was going to say that half a loaf is better than none but that is just a tiny slice.
Of course half a loaf is better than none, but we use the phrase so often; and what happens?
It may be said that half a loaf is better than none, but a whole loaf is better still.