From Seinfeld

[S&S]

Jerry: I don't know. Maybe I can beat the machine(lie detector).

Elaine: Oh, who do you think you are? Castanza?

Jerry: Hey you know what? I have access to one of the most deceitful, duplicitous, deceptive minds of our

time. Who better to advise me?

I don't understand the red sentence.

Thanks.

[Esl_Expert]

Hi S&S,

"Who better to advise me?" = Nobody could advise me better. (The question is rhetorical.)

Jerry is saying that no one could advise him better than the person he has just referred to -- the person with 'one of the most deceitful, duplicitous, deceptive minds of our time'. That person would be the best one to help him beat the lie detector. Nobody would be better.

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"A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble." ~ Mohandas Gandhi

[S&S]

Surely it's not a complete sentence, right?

[Esl_Expert]

Hi S&S,

It's probably best to simply think of "Who better to (...)?" as a commonly used (idiomatic) phrase, rather than to get bogged down with trying to decide whether it's grammatical.

However, I suppose you could simply view it as having a number of words ellipted:

- Who (could be) better to advise me (than X)?


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"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." Abraham Lincoln

[E2e4]

Could a comma help?

Who, better to advise me?

[Esl_Expert]

No, definitely not, E2e4.

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