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bread and butter
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the main, regular work or product that brings in most of your money
Often 'someone's bread and butter'. Before a noun, 'bread-and-butter issues' are basic, everyday ones.
In context
Wedding photos are the bread and butter of my business.
For small cafés, regular customers are their bread and butter.
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