bread and butter
One's main income
Bread and butter is a staple food—sliced bread spread with butter.
Figuratively, someone's bread and butter is their basic livelihood or primary source of income: Teaching private lessons is her bread and butter.
The phrase can also describe something fundamental or reliable: bread-and-butter issues like healthcare and wages.
Filling between bread slices
- toastHeated bread; glass-raising honor
- spreadTo distribute widely
- jamCooked fruit spread
- jellyFruit spread, no seeds
margarine · loaf · wheat · rye · sourdough · pumpernickel · baguette · ciabatta
Indispensable requirement
- fundamentalForming the base
- coreCentral essential portion
- basicFundamental in nature
- stapleBasic dietary necessity
mainstay · foundation · backbone · cornerstone · lifeblood · bedrock · primary · crucial
Regular monetary receipts
- wagesPayment for work
- salaryFixed periodic employment payment
- earningsMoney gained from work
- paycheckCompensation for labor
profession · career · occupation · job · work · trade · craft · employment
sandwich
Filling between bread slices
jelly · margarine · loaf · wheat · rye · sourdough · pumpernickel · baguette · ciabatta · brioche
necessity
Indispensable requirement
- fundamentalForming the base
- coreCentral essential portion
- basicFundamental in nature
staple · mainstay · foundation · backbone · cornerstone · lifeblood · bedrock · primary · crucial · vital
income
Regular monetary receipts
paycheck · profession · career · occupation · job · work · trade · craft · employment · vocation
- food idiomspiece of cake, low-hanging fruit, cool as a cucumber, bad egg, apples and oranges
- food pairingsbacon and eggs, burger and fries, cheese and crackers, chips and salsa, coffee and cream
- product pairscereal and milk, coffee and cream
- chippy farefish and chips, chips, battered fish, mushy peas, chip butty
- workjob, 9 to 5, jobs, labor, employee
- idiomstime flies, hit the sack, seize the day, ring a bell, break a leg
bread and butterside hustle
Secondary income venture
moonlighting · pin money · pocket money · mad money · passive income
bread and butterluxury
Expensive nonessential comfort
frills · icing on the cake · bells and whistles · nonessentials · extras
bread and buttergamble
Stake on uncertain outcome
risky business · long shot · moonshot · wild card · passion project
bread, butter, breads, buttery, buttered, buttering, butters, breaded, breading