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Bread and butter   /brɛd ənd bˈətər/   Listen
Bread and butter

noun
1.
The financial means whereby one lives.  Synonyms: keep, livelihood, living, support, sustenance.  "He applied to the state for support" , "He could no longer earn his own livelihood"



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"Bread and butter" Quotes from Famous Books



... Tucker, Sings for his supper. What shall he eat? White bread and butter. How can he cut it without any knife? How can he ...
— Boy Blue and His Friends • Etta Austin Blaisdell and Mary Frances Blaisdell

... the bath under the girls' bed, and had supper. Old Nurse had got them a lovely supper of bread and butter and fried onions. She was full of kind ...
— The Story of the Amulet • E. Nesbit

... literature. It is designed for the most part as an amusing occupation for idle hours. Read some of it, by all means, if you enjoy it, since "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy"; but remember that it is only the sweetmeat that comes at the end of the meal, and for sustenance, for the bread and butter of the literary diet, you must read the older books that are ...
— American Men of Mind • Burton E. Stevenson

... like to know what there was? Devonshire cream, of course; and part of a large dish of junket, which is something like curds and whey. Lots of bread and butter and cheese, and half an apple pudding. Also a great jug of cider and another of milk, and several half-full glasses, and no end of dirty plates, knives, and forks. All were scattered about the table in the most untidy fashion, just as the servants had risen from their supper, ...
— Junior Classics, V6 • Various

... me a heap of good to know that I can crack the whip where you'd be putting on the brakes, pappy; it does, for a fact. But you needn't worry about Dyckman. He won't quarrel with his bread and butter. I don't care anything about his personal loyalty so long ...
— The Quickening • Francis Lynde


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