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bread-and-butter letter



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Idioms and Phrases

A thank-you letter from guest to host. For example, Mother always had to remind the children to send Grandma a bread-and-butter note . [c. 1900]
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Example Sentences

One of these is what a college boy recently described in my hearing as the "bread-and-butter letter."

Within ten days after her departure the guest should write a bread-and-butter letter to her hostess.

Also, I have a polite bread-and-butter letter from my nice young man in Washington, and a book from him, likewise a box of candy.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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