butter

A soft yellow food made from milk, used on bread and in cooking.

• I like butter on toast.
• Melt the butter in a small pan.
• Did you put any butter in this cake?

Common phrases: spread butter, melted butter, salted butter, butter on toast

In 'bread and butter', the work or business that provides most of someone's income.

• Repairs are our bread and butter.
• Teaching was her bread and butter for years.
• We cannot afford to lose our bread-and-butter business.

Similar words: livelihood

Common phrases: bread and butter, bread-and-butter work, bread-and-butter business

In 'bread and butter', the basic practical things people need, such as jobs and money.

• Voters care about bread-and-butter issues.
• Housing is a bread-and-butter concern for many families.
• The debate focused on bread-and-butter questions such as wages.

Common phrases: bread and butter, bread-and-butter issues, bread-and-butter concerns

A very smooth landing by an aircraft.

• That landing was butter.
• The wheels touched the runway gently: pure butter.
• After several rough attempts, his final landing was total butter.

Common phrases: total butter, pure butter

To spread the yellow food made from milk on bread or other food.

• Please butter the toast.
• She buttered two slices of bread.
• Would you like me to butter your roll?

Common phrases: butter toast, butter the bread, butter a roll