BREAD-AND-BUTTER

Traducere în limba română

bread-and-butter adjectiv

1. de copil, copilăresc, tineresc; de lapte; cu caş la gură.

2. (fam.) prozaic, de fiecare zi.

3. (fig.) meschin.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

I tried to eat my parting breakfast, but my tears dropped upon my bread-and-butter, and trickled into my tea.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

He discovered a bread-and-butter field in the agricultural weeklies and trade journals, though among the religious weeklies he found he could easily starve.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

She made tea for us in a most agreeable manner; and, whenever I went near her, in handing about the tea-cups and bread-and-butter, asked me, in a whisper, whether D. was fair, or dark, or whether she was short, or tall: or something of that kind; which I think I liked.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

He then called down a little break-neck range of steps behind a door: Bring up that tea and bread-and-butter! which, after some time, during which I sat looking about me and thinking, and listening to the stitching in the room and the tune that was being hammered across the yard, appeared on a tray, and turned out to be for me.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

The rest of the half-year is a jumble in my recollection of the daily strife and struggle of our lives; of the waning summer and the changing season; of the frosty mornings when we were rung out of bed, and the cold, cold smell of the dark nights when we were rung into bed again; of the evening schoolroom dimly lighted and indifferently warmed, and the morning schoolroom which was nothing but a great shivering-machine; of the alternation of boiled beef with roast beef, and boiled mutton with roast mutton; of clods of bread-and-butter, dog's-eared lesson-books, cracked slates, tear-blotted copy-books, canings, rulerings, hair-cuttings, rainy Sundays, suet-puddings, and a dirty atmosphere of ink, surrounding all.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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