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meat and potatoes definition

meat and potatoes

Informal basic parts or aspects; essentials; fundamentals
meat-and-potatoes definition

meat·-and-potatoes (mēt′'n pə tāt′əz)

adjective

  1. basic; fundamental they talked about the meat-and-potatoes issues
  2. ordinary; everyday

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