bread-and-butter

Meaning

Adj

1. Relating to basic sustenance or the requirements for everyday living.
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bread, and, butter.

Intj

1. (archaic) A general saying used to ward off bad luck
2. (archaic) A saying specifically used to ward off bad luck when separating hands to walk either side of a tree

Synonyms

boyish

bread and butter

daily

everyday

girlish

life

livelihoods

young

youthful

Translations

fondamentale

necessario

τα προς το ζην

vita

vita

vida

Leben

vida

διαβίωση

Etymology

Reflecting that bread and butter are archetypally basic foodstuffs (daily necessities) in the places where the English language developed; compare daily bread, put bread on the table, earn one's bread, bread and water (as prisoners' diet or poverty diet), and know which side one's bread is buttered on.