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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.
For many of these hotels the businessman with an expense account is their bread and butter.
The home-made desserts are supreme, in particular the clootie dumpling, bread and butter pudding and rhubarb crumble and custard.
Twenty years ago, however, the company's bread and butter work was nailing matrimonial infidels.
Such chips are, of course, bread and butter to Apple and essential for its on-going business strategy.

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