"put butter on one's bread" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "puts butter on one's bread",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "putting butter on one's bread",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put butter on one's bread",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put butter on one's bread",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "put<,,put> butter on one's bread"
      },
      "expansion": "put butter on one's bread (third-person singular simple present puts butter on one's bread, present participle putting butter on one's bread, simple past and past participle put butter on one's bread)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1933, Ishbel Ross, Marriage in Gotham, page 71",
          "text": "\"Well, it won't put butter on our bread,\" said another.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1934, America - Volume 50, page 282",
          "text": "An author has the obligation of keeping himself alive, and it does not put any butter on his bread to get his books from the public library.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1947, Soviet Literature, page 8",
          "text": "D'ye think those savages who've been putting butter on our bread are coming to trade with you or me if we are not ready to sell at a loss?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Dana Stabenow, Killing Grounds, page 80",
          "text": "This situation isn't putting any butter on our bread, either.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To earn money."
      ],
      "id": "en-put_butter_on_one's_bread-en-verb-dvlo~DNx",
      "links": [
        [
          "money",
          "money"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, informal) To earn money."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "informal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "38 62",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see put, butter, bread."
      ],
      "id": "en-put_butter_on_one's_bread-en-verb-CI-MHDIA",
      "links": [
        [
          "put",
          "put#English"
        ],
        [
          "butter",
          "butter#English"
        ],
        [
          "bread",
          "bread#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "put butter on one's bread"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "puts butter on one's bread",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "putting butter on one's bread",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put butter on one's bread",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put butter on one's bread",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "put<,,put> butter on one's bread"
      },
      "expansion": "put butter on one's bread (third-person singular simple present puts butter on one's bread, present participle putting butter on one's bread, simple past and past participle put butter on one's bread)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms",
        "English informal terms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1933, Ishbel Ross, Marriage in Gotham, page 71",
          "text": "\"Well, it won't put butter on our bread,\" said another.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1934, America - Volume 50, page 282",
          "text": "An author has the obligation of keeping himself alive, and it does not put any butter on his bread to get his books from the public library.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1947, Soviet Literature, page 8",
          "text": "D'ye think those savages who've been putting butter on our bread are coming to trade with you or me if we are not ready to sell at a loss?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Dana Stabenow, Killing Grounds, page 80",
          "text": "This situation isn't putting any butter on our bread, either.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To earn money."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "money",
          "money"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, informal) To earn money."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "informal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see put, butter, bread."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "put",
          "put#English"
        ],
        [
          "butter",
          "butter#English"
        ],
        [
          "bread",
          "bread#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "put butter on one's bread"
}