bread and butter

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These include the Patriot and Thaad systems, which along with other missiles and munitions are the defense companies’ bread and butter.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

Further inflation would hurt economic demand, as well as banks’ bread and butter: loan volumes, corporate transaction volumes, and financial market activity.

From Barron's • Mar. 10, 2026

UCLA’s bread and butter on Saturday, though, were the many contested mid-range jump shots, which were made at an impressive clip, especially by Dent.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2026

Roach acknowledges the market’s caution, given large language models are now threatening to do what has been the bread and butter of those companies.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 25, 2026

But large choruses, soloists and orchestra were bread and butter to Bach in his Passions, Handel in his oratorios, Mozart in his Requiem and Haydn in his grand choral works.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall