英语词汇“to butter one'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

c. to butter one's bread on both sides and variants: to simultaneously ally oneself with opposing factions, people, or causes; to behave in a duplicitous and self-interested manner.

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1768 R. R. Orig. Camera Obscura 5 Those Peers and Commoners well known by the Name of Trimmers, who will have their Bread buttered on both Sides.

1834 S. Smith Sel. Lett. Major Jack Downing lxii. 163 ‘When he lets his slice fall, or some one nocks it out of his hand, it always somehow falls butter side up.’ ‘Well,’ says I, ‘Gineral, don't you know why?.. He butters both sides at once.’

1882 Ipswich Jrnl. 23 Dec. (Suppl.) 13/2 I presume you are a gentleman who wishes to butter his bread on both sides... You wish to run with the hare and hunt with the hounds.

1924 N.Y. Times 13 Jan. x2/1 The actor's art that makes us mingle hatred and sympathy for..an idealist buttering both sides of his own bread.

1981 J. L. Lasky & P. Silver Offer xiii. 278 The British butter their bread on both sides. But they intend to double-cross everyone.

2017 Cairns (Austral.) Post (Nexis) 17 Apr. 16 The politician was buttering both sides of his bread, wanting to appear tough to the commercial fishing industry without offending traditional hunters and losing their vote.

单词	to butter one's bread on both sides
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