1a : being as basic as the earning of one’s livelihood bread-and-butter issues. b(1) : reliable our bread-and-butter repertoire. (2) : dependable as a source of income a company’s bread-and-butter products. 2 : sent or given as thanks for hospitality a bread-and-butter letter.

The English idiom “bread and butter” is used when someone is talking about the main part of their income. (Income is the money you earn from your job)

A bread-and-butter issue is one that affects everyday people, like tax rates or road conditions. Basic, fundamental matters are bread-and-butter issues. Issues that have some connection to money are often described this way too, especially by politicians and journalists.

If the two nouns joined by and represent a singular idea, then the verb is singular. E.g. Bread and butter is available on request.

Bread (noun) and butter (noun) was (sing. helping verb) his only food (expression). Bread (noun) and butter (noun) is (sing. helping verb) his favourite (expression).

Senior Member. If you’re referring to bread and butter as two separate things, you need “are”. If you mean bread which has butter spread on it, then you need “is”. “Bread and butter is delicious with a banana.”

“Bread and butter” is a superstitious blessing or charm, typically said by young couples or friends walking together when they are forced to separate by an obstacle, such as a pole or another person. By saying the phrase, the bad luck of letting something come between them is thought to be averted.

1. If something is your bread and butter, it is your most important or only source of income.

When two people are walking side-by-side holding hands but briefly separate to go around an obstacle on opposite sites, they might say “bread and butter.” This phrase apparently stems from an old superstition that if the two people want to remain inseparable as bread and butter, they should invoke that kind of …

The Devil Sits on Your Loaf of Bread Beware of the devil lurking near your loaf of bread. It’s been said that if you don’t cut a cross into the top of the dough before baking it, the devil will sit on your loaf. Hence, one of the origin stories for Hot Cross Buns.

In order to show that a specific loaf was reserved for the executioner, the baker would turn the loaf upside down. An overturned loaf of bread therefore came to be associated with death or misfortune, and people avoided these loaves for fear of casting bad luck onto themselves.

Don’t Split the Pole If two people are walking together, they absolutely should not split up and walk around an obstacle like a pole or another person. “Splitting the pole” is thought to give you bad luck, but wait; there’s a remedy! If you do split the pole, just say “bread and butter” to reverse the bad luck curse.

When a capacitor is introduced between the input and output sides of the amplifier with the intention of moving the pole lowest in frequency (usually an input pole) to lower frequencies, pole splitting causes the pole next in frequency (usually an output pole) to move to a higher frequency. …

The Germans believe that whoever spills salt arouses enmity, because it is thought to be the direct act of the devil, the peace disturber. The French throw a little spilled salt behind them in order to hit the devil in the eye, to temporarily prevent further mischief.

It’s Your Unlucky Day: Ways to Avoid Bad Luck

1. Avoid these common signs of bad luck.
2. Don’t walk under a ladder.
3. Don’t continue on a path a black cat has crossed.
4. Don’t break a mirror.
5. Don’t step on a crack.
6. Don’t open an umbrella indoors.
7. Don’t leave your windows open.
8. Don’t wear an opal.

If you spill some rice at dinner, don’t expect your host to sweep it up in case he sweeps away all his good fortune. As you walk home after dark, don’t whistle — you will attract ghosts, Bernards warns. If you spot an owl or hear it hoot, that’s bad luck because they symbolize imminent disaster or death.

If you spill salt, you’ll get bad luck. To remedy your misfortune, throw salt over your left shoulder with your right hand to blind the devil and keep him from taking your soul.

When you spill salt, toss some over your left shoulder to avoid bad luck. Spilling salt has always been considered bad luck. It began with ancient Sumerains and later spread to the Egyptians, the Assyrians, and later, the Greeks. It began with how much people prized salt as a seasoning.

Dreaming about having garlic in your house will supposedly bring you good luck (hopefully actually having garlic in your house is even luckier). Garlic will rid you of bloodsucking vampires, devils, werewolves and the ‘evil eye’ (European folklore).

A fresh clove of garlic placed beneath a pillow is believed to bestow a calming effect on the nervous system, thanks to the sulphurous compounds which are released from the garlic. Of course, the garlicky scent may take some getting used to, but it’s surely worth it for a good night’s sleep!

Lucky charms are more than just mere superstition – they actually work, new research has concluded. Scientists claim to have proven that belief in good luck can enhance an individual’s performance.

Hardneck garlics typically have a shorter storage life than softnecks. Softneck Garlic: Allium sativum subsp. sativum These varieties produce cloves in several layers around a soft central stem….Fantastic garlic!

Plant cloves as early in spring as soil can be worked, about the same time as onion sets. Spring planted garlic should be put in the ground in the same manner as in the fall.

Green garlic (also called Spring garlic) is one of the first seasonal items to pop up in farmer’s markets come March or April and sticks around until May. The immature garlic bulbs and edible green stalks have an amazing nutty-oniony flavor that is great fresh or cooked.

While you might be focused on growing big garlic bulbs that mature mid-summer, the entire plant is edible. The immature bulb and tender leaves offer a mild flavor, much like scallions.