bread and butternoun [ U ]
uk/ˌbred ən ˈbʌt.ər/us/ˌbred ən ˈbʌt̬.ɚ/your bread and butter
a job or activity that provides you with the money you need to live:
Gardening is my bread and butter right now.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Earning money
- bank
- base pay
- be quids in idiom
- black money
- blast
- bread
- breadwinner
- bring sth in
- danger money
- draw
- earn
- fundraiser
- honorarium
- hustle
- income
- money for old rope idiom
- payday
- payroll
- strike pay
- venal
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bread-and-butter
adjective [ before noun ] ukus
Bread-and-butter ideas or problems are the basic things that directly relate to most people:
Health and education are the kind of bread-and-butter issues that people vote on.