It may be shit to you, but it's bread and butter to me

A typical Plumber to customer remark on viewing a well blocked toilet," It may be shit to you, but it's bread and butter to me"

Embarassed customer- I'm so sorry but the toilets full of floating shit and paper, it makes me want to throw up.

Plumber- Do not worry madam, It may be shit to you, but it's bread and butter to me.

by Cpt Crapper of Dick Scratching May 1, 2012

he knows which side of his bread is buttered

He knows where the money comes from, who pays him his livelihood or gives him the most personal gain. Used to describe how money concerns often rules people's decisons despite their feelings or personal opinions. No matter what people pander, they will not bite the hand that feeds.

He may gripe about his boss and talk about starting a new career, but he knows which side of his bread is buttered.

Corporate America may not like Trump's sexist statements, but they will still vote for him because after all, they know which side of their bread is buttered.

by Shumado January 8, 2017

Don't get your meat where you get your bread and butter

1. Same as saying "don't shit where you eat"
2. Meat meaning "meat injection" and "bread and butter" meaning money.
3. It's not a good idea to sleep with the same people you work with.

Co worker: have you noticed Bam's got nice buns
Me: Don't get your meat where you get your bread and butter

by Miss JRD July 28, 2012

bread is better than butter

I don't know... but I personally think bread is better than butter. Fite me

person 1: dude, bread is better than butter
person 2: heck yeah, totally.
person 3: I don't agree
person 1:...
person 2:...
person 3:...
*starts fighting*

by Home is where danmei exists October 11, 2020

Bread and butter

Less is more..

When he or she is that attractive there’s no need for anything else..

Guy walks past...

i’d put him in a sandwich and go easy on the bread and butter

by Just the letter j April 11, 2018

Bread <<<Pan>>>, Butter, And Jalapeños To Process Transactions Funnily Enough TO Understand A Ridle

Bread <<<Pan>>>, Butter, And Jalapeños To Process Transactions Funnily Enough TO Understand A Ridle

Bread <<<Pan>>>, Butter, And Jalapeños To Process Transactions Funnily Enough TO Understand A Ridle

by SuelTameOresuTeMato April 26, 2025

I'd eat my bread without butter!

What you growlingly exclaim when told that someone did something uncaring/deceitful because "he knows which side his bread is buttered on"; what you mean, of course, is that you would rather risk displeasing the powers-that-be than harm someone else.

Back when I was a frail and tender-minded nine-year-old, my bi**hy second-grade teacher violently shook me and gave me a long severe verbal working-over merely because I had "mouthed right back" at a "spoiled-rich-kid" youngster who had been outrageously rude to me over an extremely trivial matter. At da time I was at a total loss to know why said irritable teacher had been so ferociously defensive of Little Miss Bossy 'n' Obnoxious; it wasn't until decades later that I finally learned that said bratty pint-sized colleen was da daughter of a "somebody" in town, and so I realized dat da teacher had "known which side her bread was buttered on", and therefore when said whiny miscreant went "bawlin' 'n' blubberin'" to da teacher about it, she felt compelled to blame ME for da verbal dust-up instead of just telling dat willful child to "shut up and grow up", as she should have. As I tell my friends when relating the story nowadays, though, "I'd eat my bread without butter!" before I ever unfairly blamed an innocent person like that. Reminds me of da "Little House On The Prairie" episode about da broken music box.

by QuacksO March 18, 2019