bread and butter

The first-time elected official — she prefers that title over “politician” because it “impresses on people that this is not something you’re given” — plans to focus on “bread and butter issues” the moment she enters office.

This is the bread and butter of our players.

Two half-drunk cups of tea, and a plate of bread and butter and crisps were found in the living-room - fuelling speculation that someone else had visited the house that evening.

However, she rejected criticism that she was more concerned with "culture wars" than the "bread and butter of opposition politics".

For the Pacific Islands, climate change, geopolitics and security have often been the bread and butter of any summit.