| 单词 | to quarrel with one's bread and butter |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto quarrel with one's bread and butter to quarrel with one's bread and butter: to act against one's own (esp. financial) interests. Now somewhat rare. ΚΠ 1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 17 I won't quarrel with my Bread and Butter for all that: I know when I'm well. 1884 Harper's Mag. Dec. 92/2 Industries were not so plenty..that men could afford lightly to quarrel with their bread and butter. 1919 Bankers' Monthly Mar. 51/1 This is no time for us to quarrel with our bread and butter by talking of embargoes on exports of anything that we have to sell. 1955 A. L. Rowse Diary 28 Dec. (2004) 198 I have been incredibly careful, over here, not to quarrel with my bread and butter—partly because the audience is so warmly appreciative. to quarrel with one's bread and butter to quarrel with one's bread and butter and variants: to give up, risk the loss of, or complain about one's means of livelihood without good reason. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > lack of work > [verb (intransitive)] > vacate an office or position > resign > for insufficient reason to quarrel with one's bread and butter1738 1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 17 I won't quarrel with my Bread and Butter for all that: I know when I'm well. 1858 ‘G. Eliot’ Amos Barton vii, in Scenes Clerical Life I. 115 You will then perceive that she was in the extremely inconvenient predicament of having quarrelled, not indeed with her bread and cheese, but certainly with her chicken and tart. 1939 A. Christie Murder is Easy xii. 128 One musn't quarrel with one's bread and butter. < as lemmas |
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