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have one's bread buttered on both sides

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.82 in modern English

Syllables
have one's bread- but-tered on both- -sides
IPA
50
Scrabble Score
32
Letters
5
Syllables
13
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

Synonym of butter one's bread on both sides (“profit from two things at once”).

Inflected Forms

has one's bread buttered on both sides (present, singular) having one's bread buttered on both sides (participle, present) had one's bread buttered on both sides (participle, past) had one's bread buttered on both sides (past)

Synonyms

butter one's bread on both sides

Questions

What does have one's bread buttered on both sides mean?
Synonym of butter one's bread on both sides (“profit from two things at once”).

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