whatever butters your biscuit

alternative whatever butters your biscuits

1. idiomaticinformalSynonym of whatever floats your boat.

   I can’t figure why you’d want to paint the cabinets, but whatever butters your biscuit.

   2021, Jaime Berry, “Never to Suffer”, in Hope Springs, New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, published 2022, →ISBN

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   “And what will I do all by myssself? Twiddle my tail?” / “Whatever butters your biscuit,” Finn called back.

   2013, T. Rae Mitchell, chapter 13, in Fate’s Fables, book 1, Blaine, Wash.: Original Mix Media, →ISBN

   “Sure thing. No problemo. Room two seventy, right?” The kid looked meaningfully at Bellamy, the look on his face telegraphing words to the effect of: whatever butters your biscuit.

   2014, Olive Balla, chapter 33, in An Arm and a Leg, Adams Basin, N.Y.: The Wild Rose Press, →ISBN

   “[…] I haven’t had sex very often in this bed.” / His dark expression lightened. “That makes me happy.” / Emotion expanded in her chest. “Whatever butters your biscuit.”

   2016, Kelly Jamieson, chapter 16, in Icing (Aces Hockey; 2), New York, N.Y.: Loveswept, →ISBN

   She wrote: “There is nothing decorative about raw cotton… A commodity which was gained at the expense of African-American slaves.” OK, lady. You have a right to complain on your Facebook page about whatever butters your biscuit.

   2017 September 24, Kelly Kazek, “Offended by cotton? Please don’t take my biscuits and gravy”, in The Huntsville Times, volume 108, number 80, Huntsville, Ala., →ISSN, →OCLC, page D2, column 1

   Synonyms: whatever floats your boat