My action is of many types: a scraping, a buttering, a nocturnal pantry bumbling, a pursuit of a surreptitious snack, a self-indulgence, a midnight lark.
Let us not walk straight into another lot of litigation with the courts being accused of being silly and lawyers of buttering their bread.
I am not talking about buttering up local authorities.
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.
However, buttering one side of a slice of toast alters the surface properties.
For example, the patient may complete actions in incorrect orders, such as buttering bread before putting it in the toaster, or putting on shoes before putting on socks.
Patients were able to match a given sequence of photographs with the correct label such as: the process of making coffee, buttering bread, or preparing tea.
Buttering opened up a new world of technical tricks.