Идиома: One's Bread and Butter
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Идиома «One's Bread and Butter» означает доход, который, к примеру, человек или компания имеет от основной своей деятельности. Аналогичный русский идиом: «хлеб с маслом».
Bread and butter issues are ones that affect people directly and in a very important way. He’s a professional golfer, so I guess you could say that playing golf is his bread and butter. When I got back from the sales meeting, I took two days to write bread-and-butter letters to the people I met. «Microsoft's Windows operating system is its bread and butter. Even so, Microsoft has expanded into the video game console market, where it competes with Sony and Nintendo.»
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Wealth is not his that has it, but his who enjoys it.
Богатство принадлежит не тому, кто владеет им, а тому, кто получает от него удовольствия.