bread and butter

Example Sentences

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The bread and butter of independent distribution till now had been ancillary rights: DVDs, pay television, then pay-per-view.

From Los Angeles Times

O’Loughlin was also upbeat about the company’s ability to cash in on other markets besides active electrical cables — its bread and butter.

From MarketWatch

Putty noses, horsehair wigs, and phony accents were his bread and butter, so to speak.

From Literature

Arsenal, for instance, used to bemoan its trips to Stoke City, a scrappy, physical team that made set pieces its bread and butter, because it had no hope of winning otherwise.

From The Wall Street Journal

The bread and butter of his show still is vulnerable conversations with veterans.

From The Wall Street Journal