Next to a shop inside A few days ago, before I caught sight of this pillar, I passed by a shop and found its name “Bread n Butter”. The name stopped me from walking further on and I peeped in. I wondered if it really sold bread and butter. The answer was “No”. I found nothing of bread nor butter. The articles on the shelves were all clothes.
Most probably the owner of the shop loves bread and butter or maybe he/she attracts people’s attention in this way because people like me may be curious of what bread and butter it sells.
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From the Oxford Dictionary, "bread and butter" has the following meanings:
1. slices of bread spread
with butter
2. (way of earning)one's
living
e.g. How does he earn
his bread and butter?
Acting is his bread and
butter.
3. the basic things
e.g. Jobs, pensions and
housing are the bread-
and-butter issues of
politics.
4. (idiom)a bread-and-
butter letter: letter
thanking a host or
hostess for hospitality.
The clever owner may want to say "Selling clothes is my bread and butter".
In light of the third meaning, do you think the shop's name and the pillar's wordings are saying "these are your bread and butter needs"?
Ho keung and Yin Ping,
Both of you have given me good interpretations of "Bread n Butter".
We never think of so many interpretations! What we remember were the "Bread n Butter" you served us at breakfast in your backyard and at Tim's house!
It is nice of you to tell us this. We always think that it was too rush, especially during the time when Philip and Connie were here. When you come next time, probably we should have a long backyard breakfast.
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