Bread And Butter Idiom. It was in a book on fly fishing. As a popular idiom, english speakers have shortened the grocery list to just “bread and butter,” in the same way that some people refer to a minimal menu as “bread and water,” or in the way that english speakers also might quote the bible, saying “man does not live by bread alone,” where bread is a generic designation for food.

It means that people can’t survive without food. Tagalog, magpamukha, bread and butter, hawakan mga dila. Examples of bread and butter in a sentence, how to use it.