Nothing but bread-and-butter business happening at city hall: selling dog licenses, keeping the proto-nute flowing.

Most of those profits come from the firm's bread-and-butter business of trading, underwriting and providing client advice.

"I hope they focus on their bread-and-butter business."

Its bread-and-butter business is managing the costs of big corporate automobile fleets for Fortune 500 companies.

And the firm's bread-and-butter business - headquarters and new executive office design projects for big companies - has dwindled.

But these three executives were perceived as weak in the bread-and-butter business of finding and signing hits.

What is a bread-and-butter business if not fruits and vegetables?

The returns on bread-and-butter businesses like investment-grade securities have slipped.

Glass and plastics packaging is its bread-and-butter business.

Equity funds in particular, the funds that form the bread-and-butter business of most foreign management companies, have a spotty track record here.