Perhaps we can use your passion to a better end.

And then use it as a means to a better end.

Accommodations had been made for the kids; in fact, they seemed to get the better end of the deal.

But I feel I've got the better end of the deal.

I don't need to tell you who got the better end of that bargain.

"He got the better end of the deal," she said.

The ultimate question is: Who got the better end of the deal?

But not everyone close to the negotiations said the designer got the better end of the deal.

He had, she noted, the better end of the deal there.

It seems that Della gets the better end of the deal in this story.