bread and butter

Putty noses, horsehair wigs, and phony accents were his bread and butter, so to speak.

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.

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

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".

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