butter one's bread on both sides
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butter one's bread on both sides (third-person singular simple present butters one's bread on both sides, present participle buttering one's bread on both sides, simple past and past participle buttered one's bread on both sides)
- (idiomatic) To profit from two things at the same time, especially when those things seem contradictory or incompatible.
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profit from two things at the same time
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