bread and butter[͵bred(ə)n(d)ʹbʌtə]
<Í> 1) хлеб с маслом, бутерброд
2) разг. средства к существованию

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bread and butter

basic needs of life (food,shelter,clothing) The voters are worried about bread and butter issues like jobs and taxes.

read along

read with the leader, read together The instructor asked the class to read along in their text books.

one's bread and butter

Idiom(s): one's bread and butter

Theme: LIVELIHOOD

someone's income; someone's livelihood—the source of one's food.
• I can't miss another day of work. That's my bread and butter.
• I like to go to business conferences. That's good because that's my bread and butter.

bread and water

Idiom(s): bread and water

Theme: FOOD

the most minimal meal possible; a prison meal. (Usually used in reference to being in prison or jail. Fixed order.)
• Max knew that if he got in trouble again it would be at least a year on bread and water.
• This dinner is terrible again. I would rather have bread and water! Why don’t we ever have pizza?

Quarrel with bread and butter

Bread and butter, here, indicate the means of one’s living. (That is why we say ‘he is the bread winner of the family’). If a sub-ordinate in an organisation is quarrelsome or if he is not patient enough to bear the reprimand he deserves, gets angry and retorts or provokes the higher-up, the top man dismisses him from the job. So, he loses the job that gave him bread and butter. Hence we say, he quarrelled with bread and butter (manager or the top man) and lost his job.

be your bread and butter

be your main source of income: "Although they run a taxi service, car sales are their bread and butter."

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bread and butter¹ n. phr. The usual needs of life; food, shelter, and clothing. Ed earned his bread and butter as a bookkeeper, but added a little jam by working with a dance band on weekends.
bread and butter² adj. Thanking someone for entertainment or a nice visit; thank-you. After spending the weekend as a guest in the Jones' home, Alice wrote the Joneses the usual bread-and-butter letter. See: BREAD AND BUTTER LETTER.
bread and butter³ interj., informal Spoken to prevent bad luck that you think might result from some action. We'd say "Bread and butter!" when we had passed on opposite sides of a tree.

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n. A written acknowledgment of hospitality received. Jane wrote the Browns a bread-and-butter letter when she returned home from her visit to them.

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read a lecture
Also, read a lesson. Issue a reprimand, as in Dad read us a lecture after the teacher phoned and complained. The first term dates from the late 1500s, the variant from the early 1600s. Also see read the riot act; teach a lesson.

read (one) a lecture

To scold, reprimand, or advise addition acutely for an absurdity or mistake. I was apprehend a address by my bang-up aftermost anniversary for messing up the accounting software. I apperceive Mary messed up, but there was no charge to apprehend her a address for it.Learn more: lecture, read

read (one) a lesson

To scold, reprimand, or advise addition acutely for an absurdity or mistake. I was apprehend a assignment by my bang-up aftermost anniversary for messing up the accounting software. I apperceive Mary messed up, but there was no charge to apprehend her a assignment for it.Learn more: lesson, read

read a

lecture/lesson To affair a reprimand: My parents apprehend me a address because I had alone my chores.Learn more: read

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