whatever butters your biscuits

A form of whatever butters your biscuit — Synonym of whatever floats your boat.

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  1. alternativeAlternative form of whatever butters your biscuit.

    I *might* get a six someday. Any more strings than that is just silly, though. IMO. But, hey, whatever butters your biscuits. :)

    2003 February 24, Tom Comber, “have 5 string fretless-- do I need 4 string fretless?”, in alt.guitar.bass (Usenet), archived from the original on 15 May 2025
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    Actually, we've been over this material before. To review, the posters agreed that: 1) Tea is very pretty, with lovely, expressive eyes, 2) She has to be marked front and back. Whatever butters your biscuits, my fellow MSTies.

    1997 May 14, Noah Singman, “David Duchovy married Tea Leoni!!???”, in rec.arts.tv.mst3k.misc (Usenet), archived from the original on 15 May 2025

    “Let’s do that dollar deal, Miss Harvey. That’un works best for me ’cause, in truth, I’m not exactly sure how long I’ll be in Devils River.” / “Fine by me. Whatever butters your biscuits just suits me right down to the ground, mister.”

    2008, Tabor Evans [pseudonym], chapter 2, in Longarm in Devils River (Longarm; 361), New York, N.Y.: Jove Books, →ISBN, page 21

    If dates, places, and times don’t quite match what you as the reader feel are correct, you have the writer’s permission to take a pencil, scratch through that offensive piece of bull feathers, and add whatever butters your biscuits.

    2016, J. Lee Butts, “Preface”, in Texas Bad Girls: Hussies, Harlots, and Horse Thieves, Guilford, Conn.: Lone Star Books, →ISBN, page xi

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whatever floats your boat
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