| 单词 | it's no bread and butter of mine |
| 释义 | > as lemmasit's no bread and butter of mine (also yours, theirs, etc.) 2. slang. Following a possessive. A matter which one has the right to express an opinion on, involve oneself in, etc.; = business n. 16b. Only in negative and interrogative constructions, esp. it's no bread and butter of mine (also yours, theirs, etc.). Now rare.In quot. 2019 in a work of historical fiction. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > indifference > [phrase] > none of one's business it's no bread and butter of mine (also yours, theirs, etc.)1687 1687 J. Phillips tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote ii. iii. xxxiii. 452 Whether that Country Wench were Madam Dulcinea or no, is no Bread and Butter of mine; I shall neither be the better nor worse for it. 1741 J. Swift in Lett. Dr. Swift 175 Even the common proverb teacheth you this, when we say, it is none of my bread and butter; meaning it is no business of mine. 1755 D. Bradstreet Magician, or Bottle-conjurer ii. v. in Life & Uncommon Adventures 269 What have you to do with it; is it any Bread and Butter of yours? 1833 A. Greene Life & Adv. D. Duckworth I. xii. 150 ‘Your mother's a fool.’ ‘Well, that's none of my bread and butter.’ 1865 Goulburn (New S. Wales) Herald & Chron. 27 May It doesn't look right, somehow; but it aint no bread-and-butter of mine, anyway; so I think I'll just go and have another pint. 2019 E. Quinn Marquis She's been waiting For (e-book ed.) Yet if that was the case, why would Dursley's sister be assisting her? Not that it was any bread and butter of his. < as lemmas |
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