прекрасная половина

[luvia]

Цветы это лучший подарок и идеальный знак внимания для нашей прекрасной половины.

[Juliza]

ladies

[Корица]

Есть устойчивое выражение - other half

[donkey_hot]

the [most] beautiful / gentle / better / female / feminine half of mankind / humanity / the human race

[Codeater]

generic term is better half. А га, цветы, как же!? Это если баблосов на норковую шубу или кольцо с брюликом нету, то цветочки в горшочке.

[delta]

Codeater, VERY practical :)

You can never rouse Harris. There is no poetry about Harris... If Harris's eyes fill with tears, you can bet it is because Harris has been eating raw onions, or has put too much Worcester over his chop.

If you were to stand at night by the sea-shore with Harris, and say:

"Hark! do you not hear? Is it but the mermaids singing deep below the waving waters; or sad spirits, chanting dirges for white corpses, held by seaweed?" Harris would take you by the arm, and say:

"I know what it is, old man; you've got a chill. Now, you come along with me. I know a place round the corner here, where you can get a drop of the finest Scotch whisky you ever tasted - put you right in less than no time."
(Three Men, of course)

[nephew]

"one's better half." One's spouse or partner. General use and pretty inoffensive except to the politically correct who might jib at implied inequality of any kind in a married relationship (even if the better of the two people is invariably the woman). Of long standing: 'My dear, my better half (said he) I find I must now leave thee' - Argalus to his wife, in Sir Philip Sidney, Arcadia (1580).