英语词汇know which side one-s bread is buttered on的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	know which side one-s bread is buttered on
词源	know which side one’s bread is buttered on. This useful phrase dates back close to 500 years. It was first recorded in John Heywood’s Proverbs and Epigrams (1562) in the form, “I know on which side my bread is buttered.” Both early and later ver- sions mean the same: “I know what’s in my own best interest.”
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