Note 139 — Chapter XVIII
Reading edition
L’assiette au beurre = the plate of butter. To have an assiette au beurre is to belong to the wealthy; that is, to be able to eat butter on one’s bread (or as the French more often say) on one’s spinach.
Reading edition
L’assiette au beurre = the plate of butter. To have an assiette au beurre is to belong to the wealthy; that is, to be able to eat butter on one’s bread (or as the French more often say) on one’s spinach.