[Idiom] the upside of buttered bread

[yuriya]

"Your uncle!" exclaimed Gunny with a smile. "Now that explains a few things. He told me all about you. Said you'd be showing up someday. He talked about you like you were the upside of buttered bread. Now it makes sense!"

What do you think "the upside of buttered bread" means?

 

[corum]

My uneducated guess is this:
Definition of know which side your bread is buttered (on) from Cambridge Dictionary Online: Free English Dictionary and Thesaurus

 

[BobK]

Sounds as if it means 'something very good', but it's not an idiom I've met.

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[Barb_D]

Same here. I've never seen it before, but it sure sounds like a very good thing.

Do you use the idiom "the best thing since sliced bread"? If so, I guess that buttered bread is even better than sliced bread.

 

[euncu]

What do you think "the upside of buttered bread" means?

This is the side on which breads always fall.

 

[bertietheblue]

It could be that the speaker was making up his own expression.

 

[BobK]

Same here. I've never seen it before, but it sure sounds like a very good thing.

Do you use the idiom "the best thing since sliced bread"? If so, I guess that buttered bread is even better than sliced bread.

Yes, we do Barb - though it found its way into the UK quite recently - probably in the last 20 yrs.

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