bread and butter

Questions about bread and butter

What does bread and butter mean?

bread and butter means "the financial means whereby one lives".

What is another word for bread and butter?

Close synonyms include support, keep, livelihood, living, sustenance. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bread and butter a common word?

bread and butter is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.