bread and butter

Example Sentences

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Sainsbury's said it was able to lower some of its bread and butter prices due to wholesale prices beginning to fall.

From BBC

Where American television hustles to turn recently published beach reads into prestige series, literary classics — Austen, Dickens, Trollope, Waugh, et al. — have long been the bread and butter of British broadcasting.

From Los Angeles Times

These high-paying gigs are the bread and butter for many workers in the local film industry.

From Seattle Times

Call these garden varieties, or bread and butter, white collar crimes as Alvin Bragg referred to them.

From Salon

It seems ready and able to perform tasks that are the bread and butter of lawyers.

From New York Times