Fig. someone's basic income; someone's livelihood—the source of one's food.
I can't miss another day of work. That's my bread & butter. I worked as a bartender for a year, and it was the tips that were my bread and butter.
Selling cheap drugs to ignorant rich people is the bread and butter of local drug dealers.
A type of superstition, a chant that is uttered when something physically gets in the way of a couple, such as a pole or another person on the street. Origin: USA, early 1920's. Alternative: "Salt and Pepper."
"Oh, we've got to let that bicyclist through."
(They drop hands to let the bicyclist pass in between.)
"Bread and butter." -- "Bread and butter."
(n.) One's trade, proffession or other means of earning.
a little bird told me that sucking cock is your bread and butter
1. Verb--The act of violently and repeatedly slapping someone in a backhand, then forehand, then backhand fashion (the hand "buttering" the face/"bread"); can also be used to refer to someone being owned. Pseudonyms include B&B, Country Crock on Texas Toast, Land O' Lakes on Wonderbread, etc.
I saw these girls catfighting, and one of them jumped on the other and straight bread and buttered her!
America just buttered Al Qaeda's bread!
In full is known as 'bread and butter pud' which is cockney rhyming slang for good
"Our holiday to Margate was totally bread and butter!"
Used for saying that two people go togther. Like in a relationship, if u lot r gud 2 gether or get along.
Also means you lot are alike, get along ect.
nas: "we been 2 gether 4 long u no"
damien " yep wifey cos we like bread n butter".