0 a pale yellow solid food containing a lot of fat that is made from cream and is spread on bread or used in cooking: --
1 to spread butter on something --
2 a pale yellow, fatty solid made from cream that is spread on bread or used in cooking --
We have buttered each other up over the years on many an occasion.
The bankers have done this for economic reasons, and because they know which side their bread is buttered.
I remember seeing there a machine which was capable of cutting and buttering go pieces of bread per minute without any human activity at all.
We men are sentimentalists, but the women are realists and know on which side their bread is buttered.
Even an illiterate knows on which side his bread is buttered.
I congratulate the private sector upon knowing on which side its bread is buttered.
Fine words; alas they have buttered no parsnips.
I am not talking about buttering up local authorities.
