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bread-and-butter

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bread-and-butter
ˌbread-and-ˈbutter adjective [only before noun]
1. British English bread-and-butter questions are very important basic ones:
    bread-and-butter political issues such as jobs and housing
2. bread-and-butter work is work that is not very exciting but provides you with most of the money that you need in order to live