bread and butter

Example Sentences

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Later, I shifted to working on a series of paintings of different types of bread and butter.

From Salon

“Get their nerves up. Speed them up and get a 10-second call. It’s kind of like the bread and butter of our defense.”

From Washington Post

The process begins with geolocation: pinpointing exactly where an image was recorded on a map, which Willis calls the “the bread and butter” of verification.

From Washington Post

Gibbs decided to go for it with his bread and butter man.

From Seattle Times

“I made my bread and butter at the track,” he said.

From Washington Post