bread and butter

Example Sentences

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Arsenal, for instance, used to bemoan its trips to Stoke City, a scrappy, physical team that made set pieces its bread and butter, because it had no hope of winning otherwise.

From The Wall Street Journal

The bread and butter of his show still is vulnerable conversations with veterans.

From The Wall Street Journal

Pre-fame, reception work was her bread and butter – most memorably at a hair salon that provided a "first glimpse of what it's like to have a glam squad".

From BBC

But keeping the Ibrox club in their box is the bread and butter.

From BBC

Utter asininity is the bread and butter of “The Naked Gun,” and the movie milks cop idiocy for all its worth.

From Salon