Baker's (Half) Dozen:
Bread and butter fashion - one slice upon the other ('Tom and his maid were lying bread and butter fashion'). To quarrel with one's bread and butter: to act contrary to one's interest. To know on which sideone's bread is buttered: to know one's interest, or what is best for one. It is no bread and butter of mine: I have no business with it; or rather, I won't intermeddle, because i shall get nothing by it.
Bread - Employment. Out of bread: out of employment. In bad bread: in a disagreeable scrape, or situation.
Bread basket - The stomach: a term used by boxers. I took him a blow in his bread basket: ie. I gave him a blow in the stomach.
Kissing crust - the part where the loaves have touched the oven.
Loaf - to be 'in bad loaf'; to be in a disagreeable situation, or in trouble.
Master of the Rolls - slang term for a baker.
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