英语词汇“a person's bread always falls buttered side up”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P1. a person's bread (also toast) always falls buttered side up (also down) and variants: used to suggest that the person in question has consistently good (or bad) luck.See also slightly later variant with butter at butter n.¹ Phrases 3a.

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1827 T. Carlyle tr. E. T. A. Hoffmann in German Romance II. 203 I was born to losses and crosses for my life long! That in boyhood, at Odds or Evens, I could never once guess the right way; that my bread and butter always fell on the buttered side.

1840 Farmer's Monthly Visitor 31 Jan. 7/3 When we speak of a fortunate man, we say that his bread always comes buttered side up.

1994 Sunday Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 5 June (Agenda section) 1 James must be the least angst-ridden writer in the Western world. He has written how his bread always landed with the buttered side up.

2009 Independent (Nexis) 11 Sept. (Arts & Bks. section) 34 We're suspicious of people like Paul,..because nothing ever seems to go wrong for them. We don't trust people whose toast falls buttered side up.

单词	a person's bread always falls buttered side up
释义	> as lemmas a person's bread (also toast) always falls buttered side up (also down) P1. a person's bread (also toast) always falls buttered side up (also down) and variants: used to suggest that the person in question has consistently good (or bad) luck.See also slightly later variant with butter at butter n.¹ Phrases 3a. ΚΠ 1827 T. Carlyle tr. E. T. A. Hoffmann in German Romance II. 203 I was born to losses and crosses for my life long! That in boyhood, at Odds or Evens, I could never once guess the right way; that my bread and butter always fell on the buttered side. 1840 Farmer's Monthly Visitor 31 Jan. 7/3 When we speak of a fortunate man, we say that his bread always comes buttered side up. 1994 Sunday Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 5 June (Agenda section) 1 James must be the least angst-ridden writer in the Western world. He has written how his bread always landed with the buttered side up. 2009 Independent (Nexis) 11 Sept. (Arts & Bks. section) 34 We're suspicious of people like Paul,..because nothing ever seems to go wrong for them. We don't trust people whose toast falls buttered side up. extracted from butteredadj. < as lemmas
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