Bread And Butter

  

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Bread And Butter

Definition: Bread And Butter

Bread And Butter

Noun

1. The financial means whereby one lives; "each child was expected to pay for their keep"; "he applied to the state for support"; "he could no longer earn his own livelihood".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Bread And Butter

Synonyms: keep (n), livelihood (n), living (n), support (n), sustenance (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Bread And Butter

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Discontent

Verb: be discontented; Adjective: quarrel with one's bread and butter; repine; regret; wish one at the bottom of the Red Sea; take on, take to heart; shrug the shoulders; make a wry face, pull a long face; knit one's brows; look blue, look black, look black as thunder, look blank, look glum.

Unskillfulness

Not know what one is about, not know one's own interest, not know on which side one's bread is buttered; stand in one's own light, quarrel with one's bread and butter, throw a stone in one's own garden, kill the goose which lays the golden eggs, pay dear for one's whistle, cut one's own throat, bum one's fingers; knock one's head against a stone wall, beat one's head against a stone wall; fall into a trap, catch a Tartar, bring the house about one's ears; have too many eggs in one basket (imprudent), have too many irons in the fire.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Bread And Butter

English words defined with "bread and butter": bread and butter pickle, Brewisgarlic breadScalloped oysters, smorgasbord. (references)
Specialty definitions using "bread and butter": bread and butter issueCobbler's ToastSANDWICH MAKER, sandwich-counter attendant. (references)

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Modern Usage: Bread And Butter

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Ah, the Hoochie Coochie Show is my bread and butter! (The Dead Zone; writing credit: Aleksandar Djordjevic)

Now as a broadcaster freedom of speech is my bread and butter, but I'm also a big fan of a little thing called decency, the meat in the broadcasting sandwich. (NewsRadio; writing credit: Scott Bank; Jenny Banks)

Movie/TV Titles

His Bread and Butter (1916)

Song Titles

Bread and Butter (performing artist: The Newbeats)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Bread And Butter

DomainTitle

Books

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Bread And Butter

Computer Images:
Bread And Butter

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Use in Literature: Bread And Butter

TitleAuthorQuote

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

The mainspring is vanity, assisted by the love of garlic and bread and butter.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Expressions: Bread And Butter

Expressions using "bread and butter": bread and butter issue bread and butter pickle quarrel with one's bread and butter slice of bread and butter. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Bread And Butter

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

bread and butter pickle

96
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Bread And Butter

Language Translations for "bread and butter"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

smørrebrød. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

boterham. (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

buterpano. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

leipätyö (daily bread and butter stint, day-to-day job). (various references)

   

French

  

question alimentaire (bread and butter issue). (various references)

   

Frisian

  

brogge. (various references)

   

German

  

Butterbrot (sandwich, slice of bread of butter). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

vajas kenyér. (various references)

   

Italian

  

fetta di pane (bread). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eadbray anday utterbay

   

Portuguese

  

trivial (banal, blanket, common, commonplace, course, dismal, inelaborate, light, pedestrian, petty cash, pidgin english, platitudinarian, platitudinous, pouch, prosy, puerile, quotidian, slight, small, threadbare, trifling, trite, trivial, unimportant, uninspired, vulgar), pão com manteiga. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

prozaic (commonplace, matter of fact, pedestrian, prosaic, prosaically, prosily, prosy, unimaginative, unpoetical, workaday), pâine cu unt, de vârstã şcolarã, copilãresc (childish, childlike, children's, child's, infantile, jejune). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

бутер�, бутерброд (hot dog, reuben, sandwich, sarnie). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

rebanada (slice). (various references)

   

Sranan

  

botran. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

smörgås (sandwich). (various references)

   

Thai

  

คนหรือแหล่งรายไ"้ของบริษัท. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yağlı ekmek, temel (abecederian, back drop, backbone, basal, base, basic, basis, bed, bottom, constitutive, corner stone, elemental, elementary, footing, fortification, foundation, fundament, fundamental, grass roots, ground, ground form, groundwork, guiding, hard pan, keystone, parent, pedestal, primary, principal, root, rudimental, rudimentary, socle, staple, substratum, substructure, underlying, working), geçim için yapılan, geçim (bread, getting along, keep, livelihood, living, subsistence, sustentation, upkeep), ekmek (bread, broadcast, crop, inseminate, loaf, plant, set, set out, sow, sprinkle, tame). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

молодий (adolescent, beardless, bridegroom, vernal, young, youngling, youthful, youthly), повсякденний (daily, day to day, everyday, for everyday wear, workaday). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

brechdan (sandwich, slice of bread and butter). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Bread And Butter

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-b-d-d-e-e-n-r-r-t-t-u"

-4 letters: unbarbered, underrated.

-5 letters: aberrated, antedated, bartended, bartender, debutante, denatured, renatured, retardant, retardate, trabeated, unabraded, underbred, underrate, untreated.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Bread And Butter


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 72 65 61 64      41 6E 64      42 75 74 74 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01110010 01100101 01100001 01100100 00100000 01000001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01000010 01110101 01110100 01110100 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#114 &#101 &#97 &#100 &#32 &#65 &#110 &#100 &#32 &#66 &#117 &#116 &#116 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0072 0065 0061 0064      0041 006E 0064      0042 0075 0074 0074 0065 0072

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

368471677023580702368786867184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Quotations: Fiction
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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Nederlands, Hollands, holandez, ‏هولندي, ‏اللغة الهولندية, холандски, немски език, холандски език, холандците, немски, Olandes, 菏蘭語 , 荷兰语, holandský, nizozemský, hollandsk, hollendskt, hollantilainen, néerlandais, Nederlânsk, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, holandisht, "ול "י, holland, hollenskur, Ollainnis, olandese, 네덜란", Belanda, Ollanish, Germaanish, Tatimana, nederlandsk, ulandes, hulandes, holandês, neerlandés, olandez, nemţesc, limba olandezã, german, голландский, holanđanin, u škripcu, holandski, holandés, bakratongo, holländsk, ชาวเนเธอร์แลน"์, เกี่ยวกับเนเธอร์แลน"์, รรยา, alman, eş, flemenkçe, holandaca, hollanda, karı, hollandalı, hollandalılara özgü olan, Hollandali, hollanda'ya ait, голландська мова, голландський, ngôn ngữ khó hiểu, "b xã", for Dutch;
‏الاسبرانتو لغة دولية, Esperantu, есперанто, 世界语, esperanton, espéranto, εσπεράντο, אספר טו, eszperanto, eszperantó, エスキモー犬 , エスペラント , эсперанто, Eseperano, esperanto, Kiesperanto, าษาที่ประ"ิษฐ์ขึ้นเพื่อใช้เป็น าษากลางในการสื่อสารระหว่างประเทศ ซึ่งรากศัพท์ส่วนใหญ่, esperanto dili, tiếng etperantô, for esperanto;
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Fries, фризийски, фризиец, Frison, Frysk, Friese, fríz, frisone, Freeshlannish, Freeshlannagh, frisão, frizian, фризский, фриз, frizijac, frizijski, frisio, fris, frizye'li kimse, frizye'li, frizye dili, frizye ile ilgili, фризький, фризька мова, for Frisian;
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Portugees, portugez, portugalisht, ‏اللغة البرتغالية, ‏البرتغالية, ‏البرتغالي, португалски език, португалски, португалец, Potuges, 葡萄牙语, 葡萄牙人 , 葡萄牙語 , portugalský, portugiser, portugisiskt, portugalilainen, portugais, Portugeesk, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, Portaingéilis, portoghese, ポルトガル語 , ポルトガル", 포르투갈, Portiugish, Portiugagh, portugues, Portugalczyk, português, portughez, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalski, portugalac, portugués, Mreno, si-Putúkezi, portugis, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, portekizce, португальська мова, португальський, португалець, người B"-đ o-nha tiếng B"-đ o-nha, for Portuguese;
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Russies, Rus, ‏الروسية, ‏روسي, ‏اللغة الروسية, Rusu, руски, руски език, руснак, Rusyan, 俄語 , 俄语, 俄文 , ruština, ruský, russer, russur, russiskt, venäläinen, Russysk, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, רוסי, orosz, rússneskur, Rússi, Rúisis, russo, ロシア語 , ロシア", 러시아, Rooshish, Rooshagh, russisk, Rosjanin, русский, Lusia, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, sí-Rashîya, ryss, ชาวรัสเซีย, rusça, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський, người Nga tiếng Nga, for Russian;
Spaans, Spaanse taal, spanjoll, ‏اللغة الأسبانية, ‏الأسبانية, ‏أسباني, испански език, испански, espanyoles, Espanyol, 西班牙语, 西班牙文 , 西班牙語 , španìlský, španìlština, spanskt, espanjalainen, espagnol, Spaansk, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, karaiñe'êmegua, ספר"ית, ספר"י, spanyol, SpÚinnis, spagnolo, スペイン語 , スパイ罪 , スペイン", スパニッシュ , 스페인, Spaainagh, Spaainish, spañó, espanhol, espanhòl, spaniolesc, spanioleşte, spaniol, испанский, Sipaniolo, španski jezik, španski, español, spanska språk, spansk, ispanyollar, ispanyolca, ispanyol, іспанська мова, іспанський, for Spanish;
Sweeds, suedez, ‏اللغة السويدية, Suecu, шведски език, шведски, швед, Swedis, 瑞典語 , 瑞典语, švédský, švédština, Zweeds, svenskt, ruotsalainen, suédois, Sweedsk, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svéd, sænskur, Sualainnis, svedese, スウェーデン語 , スウェーデン", 스웨덴, Soolynish, Soolynagh, suèc, шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, sueco, svensk, เกี่ยวกับคน าษาและวั'นธรรมของประเทศสวีเ"น, isveççe, isveç dili, isveç, Ísveçlí, шведська мова, шведський, người Thuỵ điển tiếng Thuỵ điển, for Swedish;
Tailandes, 泰國 , 泰文 , 泰国, 泰 , thailænder, Thailander, Thai, Thais, thailendskt, thaimaalainen, Thaïlandais, thailändisch, Thailänder, Ταϊλανδός· Ταϊλανδέζος, tailandese, 泰語 , たい", 타이 말, tailandês, tailandés, thailändare, ที่เกี่ยวกับประเทศไทย, าษาไทย, เกี่ยวกับคนไทย, คนไทย, Taylandlı, Tayland Dili, Tayland, Tai Dili, Та"ць, Тайська Мова, Тайський, for Thai;
Turks, turk, ‏تركي أحد أبناء تركيا, ‏اللغة التركية, Turcu, турски, турски език, Turko, 土耳其, 土耳其語 , tureètina, turecký, turkist, turkkilainen, turque, turc, Turksk, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, טורקי, török, Yn Turkish, Turkagh, turcesc, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turco, turkisk, türk, türkçe, турецька мова, турецький, tiếng Thổ nhĩ kỳ, for Turkish;
乌克兰, for Ukranian;
Wallies, i uellsit, gjuha e uellsit, shkel premtimin, populli i uellsit, ik pa paguar, ‏ويلزي, ‏الولزية لغة إقليم ويلز, ‏تهرب من دفع الرهان, не си плащам дълга, измъквам се от задължение, уелски език, уелски, 威"士, 威爾士語 , waleština, waleský, Wels, valisiskt, gallois, walisisch, δεν πληρώνω τα οφειλόμενα, ουάλλοσ, ουαλλικόσ, walesi, Breatnais, gallese, Bretnagh, galês, gallés, limba velşã, din ţara galilor, velş, уэльский, velški jezik, podvaliti, velški, velšanin, galés, walesisk, galler ile ilgili, sözünü tutmamak, gal dili, bahisleri ödemeden kaçmak, şartları yerine getirmemek, ödemeden kaçmak, у"льський, валлійська мова, валлійці, валлійський, не віддати гроші, Cymreig, for Welsh;