bread & butter

Fig. someone's basic income; someone's livelihood—the source of one's food.

I can't miss another day of work. That's my bread & butter. I worked as a bartender for a year, and it was the tips that were my bread and butter.

by Mr.Job January 25, 2012

bread and butter

n.
Chief means of support.

Selling cheap drugs to ignorant rich people is the bread and butter of local drug dealers.

by TheSeoulKing December 8, 2005

bread and butter

A type of superstition, a chant that is uttered when something physically gets in the way of a couple, such as a pole or another person on the street. Origin: USA, early 1920's. Alternative: "Salt and Pepper."

"Oh, we've got to let that bicyclist through."

(They drop hands to let the bicyclist pass in between.)
"Bread and butter." -- "Bread and butter."

by al-in-chgo March 21, 2019

bread and butter

(n.) One's trade, proffession or other means of earning.

a little bird told me that sucking cock is your bread and butter

by Kung-fu Jesus July 27, 2004

Bread and Butter

1. Verb--The act of violently and repeatedly slapping someone in a backhand, then forehand, then backhand fashion (the hand "buttering" the face/"bread"); can also be used to refer to someone being owned. Pseudonyms include B&B, Country Crock on Texas Toast, Land O' Lakes on Wonderbread, etc.

I saw these girls catfighting, and one of them jumped on the other and straight bread and buttered her!

America just buttered Al Qaeda's bread!

by Danchawk May 3, 2011

Bread and butter

In full is known as 'bread and butter pud' which is cockney rhyming slang for good

"Our holiday to Margate was totally bread and butter!"

by kezuke May 30, 2007

bread and butter

Used for saying that two people go togther. Like in a relationship, if u lot r gud 2 gether or get along.
Also means you lot are alike, get along ect.

nas: "we been 2 gether 4 long u no"
damien " yep wifey cos we like bread n butter".

by Nasa February 21, 2005