bread and scrape

English

Noun

bread and scrape (uncountable)

1. Bread spread with butter or margarine that has been scraped off again so as to leave only a thin layer.
   • 1887, Alice King, The strange story at Lee, page 64:

     That's very nicely done indeed, not bread and scrape, nor yet more butter than bread, as some of those wasteful huzzies, the servant girls, cut it.

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary