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About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
Manolo Blahnik

Meaning of "bread-and-butter" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BREAD-AND-BUTTER

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WHAT DOES BREAD-AND-BUTTER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of bread-and-butter in the English dictionary

The first definition of bread-and-butter in the dictionary is providing a basic means of subsistence. Other definition of bread-and-butter is solid, reliable, or practical. Bread-And-Butter is also expressing gratitude, as for hospitality.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BREAD-AND-BUTTER

bread and butter
bread and circuses
bread and honey
bread basket
bread mould
bread poultice
bread pudding
bread roll
bread sauce
bread shop
bread-and-butter letter
bread-and-butter pudding
breadbasket
breadberry
breadbin
breadboard
breadbox
breadcrumb
breaded
breadfruit

WORDS THAT END LIKE BREAD-AND-BUTTER

better
box cutter
bread and butter
butter
clutter
cookie cutter
cookie-cutter
cutter
flutter
focal plane shutter
gutter
mutter
nutter
peanut butter
putter
rutter
shea butter
shutter
stutter
the gutter
utter

Synonyms and antonyms of bread-and-butter in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «bread-and-butter» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BREAD-AND-BUTTER

Find out the translation of bread-and-butter to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of bread-and-butter from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «bread-and-butter» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

面包和奶油
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

pan - y - mantequilla
570 millions of speakers

English

bread-and-butter
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

रोटी और मक्खन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الخبز والزبدة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

хлеб с маслом
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pão com manteiga
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

রুটি এবং মাখন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

le pain et le beurre
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

roti dan mentega
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Brot - und-Butter-
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

パンとバター
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

빵 과 버터
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Roti lan mentega
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bánh mì và bơ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ரொட்டி மற்றும் வெண்ணெய்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ब्रेड आणि बटर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ekmek ve tereyağ
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pane - e - burro
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

chleb z masłem
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

хліб з маслом
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

pâine - și - unt
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ψωμί - και - βουτύρου
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

brood-en- botter
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

bröd - och - smör
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

brød - og - smør
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of bread-and-butter

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BREAD-AND-BUTTER»

The term «bread-and-butter» is quite widely used and occupies the 42.340 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BREAD-AND-BUTTER» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «bread-and-butter» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «bread-and-butter» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about bread-and-butter

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QUOTES WITH «BREAD-AND-BUTTER»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word bread-and-butter.
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Manolo Blahnik
About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BREAD-AND-BUTTER»

Discover the use of bread-and-butter in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to bread-and-butter and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Bread and Butter
Kitchen Confidential meets Three Junes in this mouthwatering novel about three brothers who run competing restaurants, and the culinary snobbery, staff stealing, and secret affairs that unfold in the back of the house.
Michelle Wildgen, 2014
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Bread and Butter: What a Bunch of Bakers Taught Me About ...
Bread and Butter is a book with three parts: First, it's the story of the birth of an extraordinarily successful kind of business called a "freedom franchise": Great Harvest Bread Co., which began as one bakery 25 years ago, is now a $60 ...
Tom McMakin, 2011
3
Bread and Butter Indian
A little girl named Barbara befriends a hungry Indian, offering him the bread and butter. Later she is kidnaped by a strange Indian. The story describes how the "bread-and-butter" Indian comes to her rescue.
Anne Colver, Polly Anne Graff, 1964
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Pieter de Hooch: A Woman Preparing Bread and Butter for a Boy
This book examines the painting in relation to the artist's life and work, exploring his stylistic development and his complex relationship to other painters in the Dutch Republic.
Wayne E. Franits, 2006
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A Slice of Bread and Butter, cut by G. Cruikshank. Being the ...
George Cruikshank. Cl.
George Cruikshank, 1857
6
Half a Slice of Bread and Butter
Two brothers are always fighting because they have to share what little their poor family has, until the Wise Old Man helps them see that things could be worse.
Peter Durkin, Virginia Ferguson, 1994
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A Bread and Butter Miss: A Sketch in Outline (1895)
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger PublishingA AcentsAcentsa A-Acentsa Acentss Legacy Reprint Series.
George Paston, 2010
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A small bit of bread and butter: letters from the Dakota ...
The letters of Mary Ann Longley Riggs, pioneer and missionary, tell of her life with her husband and eight children as they worked with the Dakota Sioux in what is now Minnesota and South Dakota.
Mary Ann Clark Longley Riggs, Maida L. Riggs, 1996
9
Food: A Dictionary of Literal and Nonliteral Terms
However, if you drop your bread butterside down on the floor, or if you have buttered your bread on both sides (q.v.), you might just as well crawl under the table. You'll never be invited to eat there again. CODP. BREAD AND BUTTER (1) Your ...
Robert Allen Palmatier, 2000
10
Early American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases
B305 To be no Bread and butter of mine 1791 S.P.L. Thoughts 167: It is no bread and butter of mine. NED Bread-and-butter 3; Partridge 90. B306 To butter one's Bread 1692 Bulkeley Will 196: And others to fall in with and support it because ...
Bartlett Jere Whiting, 1977

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BREAD-AND-BUTTER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term bread-and-butter is used in the context of the following news items.
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Election 2016: As Labor Grapples With Candidate Endorsements …
But the ATU's Hanley credited Sanders for raising the sorts of problems, beyond bread-and-butter labor ones, that he says hurt American ... «International Business Times, Jul 15»
2
Functional art: Leatherworker makes custom boots the traditional way
But the 50-year-old Macnab's bread-and-butter remains the cowboy boots, and despite having no website and little advertising beyond word of ... «Ottawa Citizen, Jul 15»
3
Not always a liberal hotbed: Hollywood's 'conservative' cowboys
These studios relied on the Western as their bread-and-butter product when major features failed to make money. In most cases, there was a ... «Communities Digital News, Jul 15»
4
Former RAW chief A S Dulat's personal glory at nation's cost
Firstly, there is the bread-and-butter business of collecting information on every aspect of life linked to the government's custody of the national ... «Free Press Journal, Jul 15»
5
Revolver, parangs in showdown at 1868 bungalow
... that are slightly soft in nature but are nevertheless more interesting than annual reports, which focus on bread-and-butter issues," he said. «AsiaOne, Jul 15»
6
The Spirit of '76: A Rare Redcoat With Yankee Heritage
... the '73 and '79 oil crises. The first of these hit British manufacturer Jensen rather hard, given that its bread-and-butter model, the Interceptor, ... «Car and Driver, Jul 15»
7
Maruti Suzuki's got big plans under its hood with NEXA
The bread-and-butter Altos and Swifts won't be retailed at these outlets. The NEXA-branded showrooms will try attracting customers looking to ... «ET Auto, Jul 15»
8
Active Traders: Bread-and-Butter Setups
They call them their bread-and-butter trades—those that they've ... is that your bread-and-butter setups should be in sync with your trading style. «Benzinga, Jul 15»
9
Wild card for worlds prompts Eaton to go with bread and butter
“We thought it was kind of a bread-and-butter (event) which I like doing,” Eaton said last week. “I like doing the 100 (meters) and long jump ... «Bend Bulletin, Jun 15»
10
Boat show to harbour dreamers and 'bread-and-butter' buyers
"In previous years the feedback from dealers was that the bread-and-butter (boating) packages are popular," he said. "We did some research a ... «Mackay Daily Mercury, Jun 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Bread-And-Butter [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/bread-and-butter-1>. Apr 2024 ».
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