Leave just the bottom half in painting (3)
I believe the answer is:
art
'painting' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'leave just the bottom half' is the wordplay.
'leave' says the letters should be written backwards (I've seen 'left' mean this).
'the bottom' indicates one should take the final letters.
'half' becomes 'ra' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
The final letter of 'just' is 't'.
't'+'ra'='tra'
'tra' written backwards gives 'ART'.
'in' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for art that I've seen before include "Beautiful or significant products of human creativity" , "For example, Blakey's creative" , "Works of beauty created by humans" , "''... is long and life is short''" , "The works of Alma-Tadema" .)