plural of butter knife

A specialised dish for serving butter. It typically has a base with a separate fitting lid with its own handle.

(simile) Very cute.

plural of bread-and-butter issue

(Canada, US, slang) With the buttocks exposed, as for a spanking or a mooning. / (Canada, US, slang, by extension) Stark naked.

(Canada, US, informal) Stark naked, completely nude.

Were it not for God's help, someone could have suffered that outcome.

A recognition that others' misfortune could be one's own, if it weren't for the blessing of the Divine, or for fortune or fate.

Unfortunate events occur in quantity.

An innocent person (usually a female) crushed by life's adversities.