Idiom
butter the cony
Meaning
To take advantage of an unmissable opportunity.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The price is low, so butter the cony and buy it now.”
“When the company offered a massive discount on the software, I decided to butter the cony before the deal expired.”
“Recognizing that such a favorable alignment of market conditions might never recur, the investor chose to butter the cony and finalize the acquisition immediately.”
Examples
simple
“The price is low, so butter the cony and buy it now.”
contextual
“When the company offered a massive discount on the software, I decided to butter the cony before the deal expired.”
complex
“Recognizing that such a favorable alignment of market conditions might never recur, the investor chose to butter the cony and finalize the acquisition immediately.”
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