butter and eggs

butter and eggs
 n.— «Participants in gambling pools are now using figures for daily butter and egg receipts in the Chicago market.» —“Bank’s Black Blotters Block Bold Bad Men” Chicago Tribune Nov. 19, 1933. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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