February 5, 2012

Idiom: bread and butter

bread and butter

Your bread and butter is work that is your main, or regular, source of earnings.

Example of use:

Carol does some freelance web design work, but teaching is her bread and butter.

 

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Angela Boothroyd is an English language teacher providing face-to-face and online English lessons for speakers of other languages. She can be also found on Twitter @StudyingOnline, Facebook and the Studying Online website

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