to butter a person's bread on both sides and variants: to provide for a person, esp. to a lavish or excessive degree. Hence to have one's bread b…
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| 释义 | the world > action or operation > prosperity > in prosperous condition [phrase] > in easy circumstances (5) to have one's bread buttered on both sides1678 to butter a person's bread on both sides and variants: to provide for a person, esp. to a lavish or excessive degree. Hence to have one's bread b… in good bread1743 regional (in later use chiefly Scottish and English regional (northern)). in bad bread: in a bad state, in difficulties; in disfavour with a person… on velvet1749 on velvet, in a position of ease or advantage; in an advantageous or prosperous condition. Subcategories:— in conditions not involving stress or hardship (2) |
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