Used to command someone to be careful with a precious resource, especially to prevent their talents, positive traits, or advantages of any kind from going to waste or turning into something negative. We are all given a certain amount of butter for our bread, and the more we have, the harder it can be to secure. All it takes is one moment of carelessness, and that butter may slip off the bread and into the toaster as we are trying to use its residual heat to warm the butter to an optimal temperature in the post-toasting phase of toast preparation. The next thing we know, the toaster is giving off a noxious scent of burnt butter as a lingering reminder of the mistake we have made.

When you eat dirt for the first time and leave your family to build a shack in the woods

Used to command someone to be careful with a precious resource, especially to prevent their talents, positive traits, or advantages of any kind from going to waste or turning into something negative. We are all given a certain amount of butter for our bread, and the more we have, the harder it can be to secure. All it takes is one moment of carelessness, and that butter may slip off the bread and into the toaster as we are trying to use its residual heat to warm the butter to an optimal temperature in the post-toasting phase of toast preparation. The next thing we know, the toaster is giving off a noxious scent of burnt butter as a lingering reminder of the mistake we have made.