You've buttered your bread, now sleep in it.
I never fancied broiling fowls; - though once broiled, judiciously buttered, and judgmatically salted and peppered, there is no one who will speak more respectfully, not to say reverentially, of a broiled fowl than I will.
Some folk want their luck buttered.
My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.
You look as scary as a buttered muffin.
Cast your bread upon the waters, and after many days it will come back buttered.
I know on which side my bread is buttered.
I don't see what difference it makes what side it's [your bread] buttered on. I always eat both sides.
Success in TV-showmaking is just a matter of being authentic and doing the best you can, and you hope that people watch it and like it. For us [showmakers], we know where our bread is buttered, and we live by the written word of the critic. That's how shows build a critical mass on cable.
Ministers fall like buttered slices of bread: usually on their good side.
By now it was clear that Howl was in a mood to produce green slime any second. Sophie hurriedly put her sewing away. "I'll make some hot buttered toast," she said. "Is that all you can do in the face of tragedy??" Howl asked. "Make toast!
The Victorians have been immoderately praised, and immoderately blamed, and surely it is time we formed some reasonable picture of them? There was their courageous, intellectually adventurous side, their greedy and inhuman side, their superbly poetic side, their morally pretentious side, their tea and buttered toast side, and their champagne and Skittles side. Much like ourselves, in fact, though rather dirtier.
I know which side my bread is buttered on: the side which falls on the carpet.
