butter one's bread on both sides
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Verb
butter one's bread on both sides
- (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
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See also
- best of both worlds
- 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