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What is bread and butter?

What is bread and butter? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see bread,‎ butter.
  2. (idiomatic) That which is central or fundamental, as to one's business, survival, or income; a staple or cornerstone.
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The home-made desserts are supreme, in particular the clootie dumpling, bread and butter pudding and rhubarb crumble and custard.
For many of these hotels the businessman with an expense account is their bread and butter.
Once you have had your fill of plain smoked salmon with brown bread and butter, think about using it in cooking.
Often, this much-maligned contest is dismissed as a needless distraction from the bread and butter of the League.
Twenty years ago, however, the company's bread and butter work was nailing matrimonial infidels.
His dream remained forging art works, but this was still his bread and butter.

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