have one's bread buttered for life

Meanings:

• 1.

  Generalliteral
  • To have one's bread permanently spread with butter; to be provided with buttered bread for the remainder of one's life.

• 2.

  Generalidiomaticinformal
  • To be securely provided for financially or materially for the rest of one's life; to have a guaranteed, long-term source of comfort or benefit.