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Bread and butter The phrase is used to refer to one’s basic source of income. In a separate context, it also stems from an age-old superstition. When two friends or a young couple walk while holding hands, but are forced to let go in order to go around an obstacle, they may utter the phrase. Just as bread and butter are treated as a food (and word) pair, the combination is considered to be inseparable. Thus, while ‘separating’ for a brief second, the two people say ‘bread and butter’ for a similar sense of togetherness.

Breaking bread To break bread with someone means to share a meal with the person. The idiom draws its roots from an ancient text — during a meal, the tough bread was broken, not torn.

Know which side your bread is buttered on When you learn ‘which side your bread is buttered on’, you learn what works in your favour and what is advantageous for you. The proverb dates back to the 1500s, when it was first used in John Heywood’s A dialogue conteinying the number in effect of all the prouerbes in the Englishe tongue, where he wrote, “I knowe on whiche syde my breade is buttred.”

Bread and circuses

“Panem et circenses,” wrote Roman poet Juvenal, which is Latin for “bread and circuses.” It stands for convenient methods or short term alternatives to pressing issues and grievances; appeasing through entertainment, and hence, causing temporary distraction.

the best thing since sliced bread Sliced bread, i.e. sliced with a machine and packaged, was first sold in 1928. The bread was advertised as ‘the greatest step forward in the baking industry since bread was wrapped.” Today, the idiom refers to an invention or development of great significance, almost revolutionary.