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Definition of bread and butter in English: bread and butternounbrɛd ənd ˈbʌtəˈˌbrɛd (ə)n ˈbədər mass noun1A person's livelihood or main source of income. 谋生之道,生计;主要的收入来源 their bread and butter is reporting local events 他们靠报导当地新闻谋生。 as modifier bread-and-butter occupations 赖以谋生的职业。 Example sentencesExamples - You have your bread and butter income, from doing things like setting up a teaching practice or running a covers band with a commercial edge to it.
- It's bread and butter work and a host of other urgers and coat tuggers have now tuned in to the lurk.
- Of course their bread and butter depends on advertising, but that's the nature of commercial broadcasting.
- His dream remained forging art works, but this was still his bread and butter.
- Such chips are, of course, bread and butter to Apple and essential for its on-going business strategy.
- Put simply, the Wolves should rely on their bread and butter and abandon what doesn't work.
- Twenty years ago, however, the company's bread and butter work was nailing matrimonial infidels.
- It has been unfortunate that many of the ties have fallen on dates when the club would have had home league games to provide their bread and butter income.
- Sporadic work, from a wide variety of sources, is their bread and butter.
- The downturn is also thought to affect the fee income of barristers for whom personal injuries work is often their bread and butter.
- Amongst his academic duties, Dane intends to take up rugby, the school's main sporting bread and butter.
- Secondly, why do working women live on bread and butter while working men live on beefsteak and butter?
- Her bread and butter work is commercial photography but artwork is her passion.
- But there are thousands for whom commercials, though not their sole income, are bread and butter.
Synonyms living, livelihood, means of subsistence, income, daily bread - 1.1 Used in reference to something everyday or ordinary.
the bread and butter of non-League soccer 普通的业余足球运动员。 Example sentencesExamples - It is time to start filling in the blanks, particularly on bread-and-butter issues.
- Residents also ask constituency assistants about bread-and-butter money issues.
- He probably didn't hammer enough on bread-and-butter issues in the Midwest.
- This sort of straight-line running to commit a tackler should be bread-and-butter stuff but Scotland's back division still manages to make a meal of it.
- In Bulgaria of 2004 and 2005, it may be that old-fashioned bread-and-butter politics will hold sway.
- The messages the party must get over are, it turns out, about wooing key groups of voters, particularly women, on bread-and-butter issues such as pensions and tax.
- What's holding him down is concern about the economy and other sort of bread-and-butter issues like health care.
- After the joys of the three-day Festival meeting at Cheltenham, it's back to bread-and-butter fare, and a taste of what is just around the corner, tomorrow.
- For the world's poor, ‘anti-globalisation’ is about real bread-and-butter issues, which do not disappear once the international summits are over.
- Maybe some of those bread-and-butter issues can come to the fore.
- During his time on Down District Council, he developed a reputation as a man of the ordinary people; someone who would campaign hard on bread-and-butter issues.
- This is a very specific bread-and-butter campaign.
- He is also attuned to running a two-tier system, managing four-star hotels as well as bread-and-butter budget locations.
- Do the movements concern themselves only with bread-and-butter issues, ignoring the big picture issues such as where China may be heading?
- Sources tell CNN that from his hospital bed, the former president counseled Kerry on shifting the talk from Vietnam to bread-and-butter issues.
- Polls over the past week show that most voters are just as exercised about bread-and-butter issues such as jobs and domestic concerns as they are about Iraq and the ‘war on terror’.
- Under Macmillan, they continued to deliver on bread-and-butter issues and were rewarded by a 100-seat election win in 1959.
- But where bread-and-butter issues are concerned, they know where their loyalties lie.
- Labor brings the most muscle, for instance, but it also has to play defense against Republican assaults on a variety of bread-and-butter issues.
- For him, economics is everything: all else is just a diversion staged by the wicked ruling class to distract the masses from bread-and-butter issues.
Synonyms youthful, young, childlike, adolescent, teenage, teenaged, fresh-faced
Definition of bread and butter in US English: bread and butternounˈˌbrɛd (ə)n ˈbədərˈˌbred (ə)n ˈbədər 1A person's livelihood or main source of income, typically as earned by routine work. 谋生之道,生计;主要的收入来源 their bread and butter is reporting local events 他们靠报导当地新闻谋生。 as modifier bread-and-butter occupations 赖以谋生的职业。 Example sentencesExamples - Sporadic work, from a wide variety of sources, is their bread and butter.
- It has been unfortunate that many of the ties have fallen on dates when the club would have had home league games to provide their bread and butter income.
- Her bread and butter work is commercial photography but artwork is her passion.
- Put simply, the Wolves should rely on their bread and butter and abandon what doesn't work.
- But there are thousands for whom commercials, though not their sole income, are bread and butter.
- Twenty years ago, however, the company's bread and butter work was nailing matrimonial infidels.
- Of course their bread and butter depends on advertising, but that's the nature of commercial broadcasting.
- It's bread and butter work and a host of other urgers and coat tuggers have now tuned in to the lurk.
- Such chips are, of course, bread and butter to Apple and essential for its on-going business strategy.
- Secondly, why do working women live on bread and butter while working men live on beefsteak and butter?
- The downturn is also thought to affect the fee income of barristers for whom personal injuries work is often their bread and butter.
- His dream remained forging art works, but this was still his bread and butter.
- Amongst his academic duties, Dane intends to take up rugby, the school's main sporting bread and butter.
- You have your bread and butter income, from doing things like setting up a teaching practice or running a covers band with a commercial edge to it.
Synonyms living, livelihood, means of subsistence, income, daily bread - 1.1 An everyday or ordinary person or thing.
平凡的人(或事) the bread and butter of non-League soccer 普通的业余足球运动员。 as modifier a good bread-and-butter player Example sentencesExamples - He probably didn't hammer enough on bread-and-butter issues in the Midwest.
- For the world's poor, ‘anti-globalisation’ is about real bread-and-butter issues, which do not disappear once the international summits are over.
- For him, economics is everything: all else is just a diversion staged by the wicked ruling class to distract the masses from bread-and-butter issues.
- In Bulgaria of 2004 and 2005, it may be that old-fashioned bread-and-butter politics will hold sway.
- After the joys of the three-day Festival meeting at Cheltenham, it's back to bread-and-butter fare, and a taste of what is just around the corner, tomorrow.
- He is also attuned to running a two-tier system, managing four-star hotels as well as bread-and-butter budget locations.
- The messages the party must get over are, it turns out, about wooing key groups of voters, particularly women, on bread-and-butter issues such as pensions and tax.
- Under Macmillan, they continued to deliver on bread-and-butter issues and were rewarded by a 100-seat election win in 1959.
- This sort of straight-line running to commit a tackler should be bread-and-butter stuff but Scotland's back division still manages to make a meal of it.
- What's holding him down is concern about the economy and other sort of bread-and-butter issues like health care.
- Maybe some of those bread-and-butter issues can come to the fore.
- This is a very specific bread-and-butter campaign.
- Do the movements concern themselves only with bread-and-butter issues, ignoring the big picture issues such as where China may be heading?
- But where bread-and-butter issues are concerned, they know where their loyalties lie.
- Polls over the past week show that most voters are just as exercised about bread-and-butter issues such as jobs and domestic concerns as they are about Iraq and the ‘war on terror’.
- It is time to start filling in the blanks, particularly on bread-and-butter issues.
- Labor brings the most muscle, for instance, but it also has to play defense against Republican assaults on a variety of bread-and-butter issues.
- During his time on Down District Council, he developed a reputation as a man of the ordinary people; someone who would campaign hard on bread-and-butter issues.
- Residents also ask constituency assistants about bread-and-butter money issues.
- Sources tell CNN that from his hospital bed, the former president counseled Kerry on shifting the talk from Vietnam to bread-and-butter issues.
Synonyms youthful, young, childlike, adolescent, teenage, teenaged, fresh-faced
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