Can I have some bread and butter?
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Please let's have a look at the sentence:
Can I have some bread and butter?
a) How would you construe the above sentence?
b) Can it be construed in any of these http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/bread+and+butter idiomatic ways?
c) Can I say it meaning that I would like to get a loaf of bread and a packet of butter (for example in the shop)?
d) Can I say it meaning that I would like to get a slice of bread with butter spread on it?
Top answer
Hi As your sentence stands, I'd say that you are just asking for a couple of slices of bread with butter on them The Free Dictionary entry is good but, in order to use the phrase in that way, you need to give it some context (and I agree with the hyphens): - The local shop have taken me on for twenty hours a week. Not a great job, but I'm really pleased to have a bread-and-butter income. Dave
- Hi As your sentence stands, I'd say that you are just asking for a couple of slices of bread with butter on them The Free Dictionary entry is good but, in order to use the phrase in that way, you need to give it some context (and I agree with the hyphens): - The local shop have taken me on for twenty hours a week.
- Not a great job, but I'm really pleased to have a bread-and-butter income.
- Dave
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As your sentence stands, I'd say that you are just asking for a couple of slices of bread with butter on them
The Free Dictionary entry is good but, in order to use the phrase in that way, you need to give it some context (and I agree with the hyphens):
- The local shop have taken me on for twenty hours a week. Not a great job, but I'm really pleased to have a bread-and-bu
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