butter one's bread on both sides

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Verb

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)

1. (idiomatic) To profit from two things at the same time, especially when those things seem contradictory or incompatible.

Translations

profit from two things at the same time

• Dutch: van twee walletjes eten
• French: vouloir le beurre et l’argent du beurre
• Norwegian: få i pose og sekk

See also

• best of both worlds
• double-dip
• have one's bread buttered on both sides
• have one's cake and eat it too
• know which side one's bread is buttered on