I never heard this saying before
"Falling in the butter". which means becoming wealthy. Naturally I have heard " bread and butter all my life.
shareI've never heard that either. It kind of sounds like old-movie talk.
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Like a big stick of buttah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiJkANps0Qw&t=431s
I've never heard it either, probably because "becoming wealthy" is a rare thing in real life. I don't know anyone in real life who became wealthy, unless you count my late best friend, who got a job making about $250,000 a year in the mid 2000s, but which eventually led to his death in 2015. And that's not exactly "wealthy" in the grand scheme of things. It was enough for him to buy a brand new Ford Mustang in 2007 (paid in full with cash on the day he bought it; no loan/financing required) for his no-account, shiftless, cheating wife though, who promptly wrecked it.
shareIf I may ask, how did your friend die? What kind of job did he have?
shareHe was ex-Army and a former deputy sheriff and got a job with a military contractor company (DynCorp International) in or around 2005, training police forces in the Middle East. He was killed in Afghanistan in 2015 when a suicide car bomber attacked the NATO convoy that he was in. Two other American civilian contractors in the convoy were killed at the same time, as were about a dozen Afghan citizens.
The night before he was killed he talked to his mother on the phone and told her how bad it was getting over there, and how he had a bad feeling about driving a truck in the convoy the next day. He was planning to come home soon and didn't plan to go back as he had a much safer [relatively speaking] job lined up with the State Police here.
That's why we had no business in Afghanistan in the first place. And after billions of dollars wasted they kicked us out anyway. What a waste. So now let's risk nuclear war for the oligarchs in Ukraine! Yay! We're led by idiots.
shareI've never heard either. Bread & Butter all my life? Sounds goofy. Butter also has a bad rep now due to cholesterol. Though I love butter but limit my intake.
shareIt’s an old Irish phrase (Shamrock Andy).
shareNever heard it, sounds messy. Is it an old saying?
shareSounds made up.