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Adjective: bread-and-butter  ,bred-un'bu-tu(r)
  1. Basic, everyday, or routine
    "The company focused on bread-and-butter products that reliably sold well"
Noun: bread and butter
  1. The financial means whereby one lives
    "His job as a teacher was his bread and butter";
    - support, keep, livelihood, living, sustenance
     
  2. Ordinary or everyday concerns
    "The bread and butter issues facing working families"

Type of: resource

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