Quarrel with bread and butter Idiom

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Quarrel with bread and butter

Bread and butter, here, indicate the means of one’s living. (That is why we say ‘he is the bread winner of the family’). If a sub-ordinate in an organisation is quarrelsome or if he is not patient enough to bear the reprimand he deserves, gets angry and retorts or provokes the higher-up, the top man dismisses him from the job. So, he loses the job that gave him bread and butter. Hence we say, he quarrelled with bread and butter (manager or the top man) and lost his job.

Quarrel with aliment and butter

Bread and butter, here, announce the agency of one’s living. (That is why we say ‘he is the aliment champ of the family’). If a sub-ordinate in an organisation is argumentative or if he is not accommodating abundant to buck the admonishment he deserves, gets affronted and retorts or provokes the higher-up, the top man dismisses him from the job. So, he loses the job that gave him aliment and butter. Hence we say, he quarrelled with aliment and adulate (manager or the top man) and absent his job. Dictionary