英语词汇“to butter a person's bread on both sides”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. 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 buttered on both sides: to enjoy a prosperous, fortunate, or extravagant lifestyle; to be profligate or wasteful.

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the world > action or operation > prosperity > in prosperous condition [phrase] > in easy circumstances

to have one's bread buttered on both sides1678

in good bread1743

on velvet1749

a1625 J. Fletcher Women Pleas'd iv. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ffffff/2 Lop. Go pay the Boyes well: see them satisfied. Pen. Come Mounsieur Devills, come my Black-berries Ile butter ye o' both sides.

1678 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Prov. (ed. 2) 232 His bread is buttered on both sides. i. e. He hath a plentifull estate: he is fat and full.

1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 642/2 Gi'e the Whigs places and pensions,—And butter both sides of their bread With jobations of all dimensions.

1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott (1839) I. 206 (note) Wherever Walter goes he is pretty sure to find his bread buttered on both sides.

1881 C. E. L. Riddell Senior Partner I. 47 In some shape or form she was always trying to get her toast buttered on both sides; but Mr. McCullagh would not permit her one single luxury of which he disapproved.

1907 J. F. Carter Destroyers x. 152 They know not the imprudence of buttering bread on both sides when butter is plenty.

1958 Financial Times 25 Apr. 2/6 The workers want a new wage scheme with bread buttered on both sides with jam round the edges.

2017 Argus Weekend (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 3 Sept. (Sport section) 26 They expected to waltz into easy money.., but it hasn't proved to be the case. It turns out that not everyone can have their bread buttered on both sides.

单词	to butter a person's bread on both sides
释义	> as lemmas to butter a person's bread on both sides b. 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 buttered on both sides: to enjoy a prosperous, fortunate, or extravagant lifestyle; to be profligate or wasteful. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > in prosperous condition [phrase] > in easy circumstances to have one's bread buttered on both sides1678 in good bread1743 on velvet1749 a1625 J. Fletcher Women Pleas'd iv. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ffffff/2 Lop. Go pay the Boyes well: see them satisfied. Pen. Come Mounsieur Devills, come my Black-berries Ile butter ye o' both sides. 1678 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Prov. (ed. 2) 232 His bread is buttered on both sides. i. e. He hath a plentifull estate: he is fat and full. 1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 642/2 Gi'e the Whigs places and pensions,—And butter both sides of their bread With jobations of all dimensions. 1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott (1839) I. 206 (note) Wherever Walter goes he is pretty sure to find his bread buttered on both sides. 1881 C. E. L. Riddell Senior Partner I. 47 In some shape or form she was always trying to get her toast buttered on both sides; but Mr. McCullagh would not permit her one single luxury of which he disapproved. 1907 J. F. Carter Destroyers x. 152 They know not the imprudence of buttering bread on both sides when butter is plenty. 1958 Financial Times 25 Apr. 2/6 The workers want a new wage scheme with bread buttered on both sides with jam round the edges. 2017 Argus Weekend (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 3 Sept. (Sport section) 26 They expected to waltz into easy money.., but it hasn't proved to be the case. It turns out that not everyone can have their bread buttered on both sides. extracted from butterv. < as lemmas
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