know which side of the bread is buttered
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Alternative form of know which side one's bread is buttered on.
— It was a graceless and ungrateful act and, in view of Blowitz’s Orléanist sympathies, must have antagonized from the start that stalwart champion of the inoffensive Princes’ rights. But Boulanger, a political general on the make, knew which side of the bread was buttered, and to his skill in posing as a guardian of Republican virtues was soon added his power of exciting the love for a military hero which lies embedded within the French breast.
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