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"bread and butter issues" is a phrase that is often used in written English.
It is used to refer to matters that are considered to be of basic importance, often related to economic or financial matters. For example, "During this election, the main focus of the debate has been on bread and butter issues such as healthcare and taxes."
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Bread and butter.
Bread and butter issues are ones that affect people directly and in a very important way.
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Bread and butter issues tend to matter in elections.
Many blame Mr Chen for campaigning on questions of national identity, not bread and butter issues.
The government wants to shift the political debate away from bread and butter issues.
"But when they failed to do the bread and butter issues, people started looking at their governments".
Who are you talking to that says other positives should trump these bread and butter issues for most Americans?
In New York, the island's status takes a back seat to bread and butter issues of education and jobs.
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"The solutions discussed weren't bread-and-butter issues, just power".
His manifesto favoured "strictly bread-and-butter issues, things like food prices in the student refectory".
Here people vote for either party and the "bread-and-butter issues" resonate.
The talk was of bread-and-butter issues, not bullets: access to drinking water, electricity and gas.
They say a focus on bread-and-butter issues of tax and spend would play better on the doorstep.
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