Don't peanut butter your budget across too many small projects.
peanut butter
idiomTo spread resources too thin.
The manager decided to focus on one main goal rather than peanut butter the team's limited time across five different tasks.
By attempting to peanut butter their dwindling financial resources across every department simultaneously, the board ensured that no single initiative received the funding necessary for success.
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bread and butter
That which is central or fundamental, as to one's business, survival, or income; a staple or cornerstone.
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butter face
Alternative form of butterface.
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butter one's bread on both sides
To profit from two things at the same time, especially when those things seem contradictory or incompatible.
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butter the cony
To take advantage of an unmissable opportunity.
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butter wouldn't melt in someone's mouth
The identified person appears to be benign, mild-mannered, or calm (but with an integral suggestion that, to the contrary, they really are untrustworthy, disagreeable, or mean-spirited).
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like butter on a bald monkey
Very smooth.
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peanut gallery
Any source of heckling, unwelcome commentary or criticism, especially from a know-it-all or of an inexpert nature. May also now refer to general audience response: "Let's hear it from the peanut gallery."
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put butter on one's bread
To earn money.