bread and butter
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bread and butter(
brehd
ahnd
buh
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duhr
)A phrase is a group of words commonly used together (e.g., once upon a time).
1. (culinary)
a. pan y manteca
Do you want anything else besides tea? Bread and butter, for example?¿Quieren algo más además de té? ¿Por ejemplo, pan y manteca?
A noun is a word referring to a person, animal, place, thing, feeling, or idea (e.g., man, dog, house).
2. (idiom) (livelihood)
An idiom is a phrase with a meaning different from the literal meaning of the separate words that make it up (e.g., break a leg).
a. el sustento (M)
(m) means that a noun is masculine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
The family business is my bread and butter.La empresa familiar es mi sustento.
b. no direct translation
This refers to an idiomatic word or phrase for which there is no word-for-word translation.
As a personal trainer, my clients are my bread and butter.Como entrenador personal, lo que me da de comer son los clientes.
Landscaping is my bread and butter, so I work a lot during the summer.Me gano la vida con el paisajismo, así que trabajo mucho durante el verano.
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