bread-and-butter issue
collocation in Englishmeaningsofbread-and-butterandissue
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bread-and-butter
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˌbred ən ˈbʌt.ər/us/ˌbred ən ˈbʌt̬.ɚ/
basic and relating directly to most people's needs ...
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issue
noun[C]
uk/ˈɪʃ.uː/us/ˈɪʃ.uː/
a subject or problem that people are thinking and ...
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Anotherbread-and-butterissueis school investment.
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It is abread-and-butterissue.
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It is often said that people are not particularly interested in that policy sphere, as it does not deal with bread-and-butter issues.
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I want to concentrate on the bread-and-butter issues that concern my constituents.
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I turn, briefly, to the bread-and-butter issues of politics.
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This situation has caused political apathy and a lack of focus on the crucial issues facing our daily lives—in other words, bread-and-butter issues.
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Rather than being great sweeping issues, these are the bread-and-butter issues that our constituents raise in our surgeries.
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I turn now to the more bread-and-butter issues.
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It should not be necessary to bring day-to-day, bread-and-butter issues here.
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I have concentrated on discipline, achievement and behaviour, but those are bread-and-butter issues.
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Those bread-and-butter issues matter to people in rural communities.
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It builds on what we have done so far, and it concentrates on bread-and-butter issues, which is welcome.
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What happens to economic and monetary policy, to interest rates, exchange rates, budgetary policy, taxing and spending which are the substantial bread-and-butter issues of our politics?
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The attendance for the debate is low, even though it deals with bread-and-butter issues which are of key concern to the life of the people and should be fully discussed.
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