What is bread and butter?

What is bread and butter? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see bread,‎ butter.
  2. (idiomatic) That which is central or fundamental, as to one's business, survival, or income; a staple or cornerstone.
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Often, this much-maligned contest is dismissed as a needless distraction from the bread and butter of the League.
Of course their bread and butter depends on advertising, but that's the nature of commercial broadcasting.
The ability to cut very thin bread was greatly prized and dainty bread and butter was often served for afternoon tea.
Put simply, the Wolves should rely on their bread and butter and abandon what doesn't work.
For many of these hotels the businessman with an expense account is their bread and butter.
Twenty years ago, however, the company's bread and butter work was nailing matrimonial infidels.

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