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quarrel with bread and butter

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  • quarrel with bread and butter — Bread and butter, here, indicate the means of one’s living. (That is why we say ‘he is the bread winner of the family’). If a sub ordinate in an organisation is quarrelsome or if he is not patient enough to bear the reprimand he deserves, gets… …   The small dictionary of idiomes

  • quarrel with one's bread and butter — To act in a way prejudicial to one s means of subsistence • • • Main Entry: ↑quarrel …   Useful english dictionary

  • quarrel with one's bread and butter — v. repine, be unhappy, be not satisfied, be discontented …   English contemporary dictionary

  • quarrel with one's bread and butter —  Behave so as to endanger one s livelihood …   A concise dictionary of English slang

  • cheer|i|o — «CHIHR ee oh», interjection, noun, plural i|os. Especially British Informal. 1. hello. 2. good by: »Cheerio, my dear, don t quarrel with bread and butter (John Galsworthy). 3. hurrah …   Useful english dictionary

  • Discontent — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Discontent >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 discontent discontent discontentment Sgm: N 1 dissatisfaction dissatisfaction Sgm: N 1 dissent dissent &c. 489 GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 disappointment disappointment mor …   English dictionary for students

  • Unskillfulness — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Unskillfulness >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 unskillfulness unskillfulness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 want of skill want of skill &c. 698 Sgm: N 1 incompetence incompetence incompentency Sgm: N 1 inability inability infel …   English dictionary for students

  • John Foxe — Infobox Writer name =John Foxe |frame caption = birthdate = 1517 birthplace = Boston, Lincolnshire, England1 deathdate = 1587 deathplace = England occupation = clergyman, author genre = church history movement = Puritan influences = influenced =… …   Wikipedia

  • Introduction —    Sacred music is a universal phenomenon of humanity. Where there is faith, there is music to express it. Every major religious tradition and most minor ones have music and have it in abundance and variety. There is music to accompany ritual and …   Historical dictionary of sacred music

  • discontent — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Want of satisfaction Nouns 1. discontent, discontentment, displeasure; dissatisfaction, resentment; inquietude, vexation, soreness, heartburning (see dejection); querulousness (see lamentation);… …   English dictionary for students

  • stand in one's own light — Act against one s own interest, not know on which side one s bread is buttered, quarrel with one s bread and butter, kill the goose which lays golden eggs, throw a stone in one s own garden …   New dictionary of synonyms

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