basic needs of life (food,shelter,clothing) The voters are worried about bread and butter issues like jobs and taxes.
read along
read with the leader, read together The instructor asked the class to read along in their text books.
one's bread and butter
Idiom(s): one's bread and butter
Theme: LIVELIHOOD
someone's income; someone's livelihood—the source of one's food. • I can't miss another day of work. That's my bread and butter. • I like to go to business conferences. That's good because that's my bread and butter.
bread and water
Idiom(s): bread and water
Theme: FOOD
the most minimal meal possible; a prison meal. (Usually used in reference to being in prison or jail. Fixed order.) • Max knew that if he got in trouble again it would be at least a year on bread and water. • This dinner is terrible again. I would rather have bread and water! Why don’t we ever have pizza?
Quarrel with bread and butter
Bread and butter, here, indicate the means of one’s living. (That is why we say ‘he is the bread winner of the family’). If a sub-ordinate in an organisation is quarrelsome or if he is not patient enough to bear the reprimand he deserves, gets angry and retorts or provokes the higher-up, the top man dismisses him from the job. So, he loses the job that gave him bread and butter. Hence we say, he quarrelled with bread and butter (manager or the top man) and lost his job.
be your bread and butter
be your main source of income: "Although they run a taxi service, car sales are their bread and butter."
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bread and butter1n. phr. The usual needs of life; food, shelter, and clothing. Ed earned his bread and butter as a bookkeeper, but added a little jam by working with a dance band on weekends. bread and butter2adj. Thanking someone for entertainment or a nice visit; thank-you. After spending the weekend as a guest in the Jones' home, Alice wrote the Joneses the usual bread-and-butter letter. See: BREAD AND BUTTER LETTER. bread and butter3interj., informal Spoken to prevent bad luck that you think might result from some action. We'd say "Bread and butter!" when we had passed on opposite sides of a tree.
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n. A written acknowledgment of hospitality received. Jane wrote the Browns a bread-and-butter letter when she returned home from her visit to them.
read a lecture
read a lecture Also, read a lesson. Issue a reprimand, as in Dad read us a lecture after the teacher phoned and complained. The first term dates from the late 1500s, the variant from the early 1600s. Also see read the riot act; teach a lesson.
đọc (một) bài giảng
Để la mắng, khiển trách hoặc khiển trách một người nào đó nghiêm khắc về một lỗi hoặc sai lầm. Tôi vừa bị sếp đọc một bài giảng vào tuần trước vì làm sai phần mềm kế toán. Tôi biết Mary vừa gây rối, nhưng bất nên phải đọc cho cô ấy một bài giảng vì điều đó .. Xem thêm: bài giảng, hãy đọc
đọc (một) bài học
Để mắng mỏ, khiển trách hoặc khiển trách ai đó nghiêm khắc vì một lỗi hoặc nhầm lẫn. Tuần trước, tui bị sếp đọc cho một bài học vì làm rối phần mềm kế toán. Tôi biết Mary vừa gây rối, nhưng bất cần thiết phải đọc cho cô ấy một bài học cho nó .. Xem thêm: bài học, bài đọc
đọc một bài giảng /
Để đưa ra lời khiển trách: Cha mẹ tui đọc cho tui một bài giảng vì Tôi vừa bỏ bê chuyện nhà của mình .. Xem thêm: đọc. Xem thêm:
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