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bread-and-butter letter
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]Example Sentences
But all good things must come to an end, and it seemed just a little while before Molly found herself back at her old desk in her room at Queen’s, writing a “bread-and-butter†letter to Mr. Stewart, which pleased him mightily, since Mary’s guests had never before taken that trouble.
Jimmie's "bread-and-butter" letter gave me such joy that I copy it here, which shows how little I care for the conventions of life, inasmuch as I reproduce none of the others.
He had arrived at this extreme before he received the note from Mrs. Birkwall, which she made his prompt bread-and-butter letter the excuse of writing him.
"A bread-and-butter letter; Mother says it's all right."
"Mother," said Marjorie, the next day, "what is a bread-and-butter letter?"
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