Meat And Potatoes Definition

mēt'npətātəz
noun
Basic elements; essentials; fundamentals.
Webster's New World

Used other than as an idiom: see meat,"Ž and,"Ž potatoes.

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(US, informal) The essential part or parts of something.

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adjective
Basic; fundamental.
They talked about the meat-and-potatoes issues.
Webster's New World
Ordinary; everyday.
Webster's New World
Normal, average, typical, unexceptional, or nondescript in description.
Rick is very experimental and open minded about trying new things but Ted on the other hand is a meat and potatoes kind of guy.
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Alternative spelling of meat and potatoes.
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Meat And Potatoes Sentence Examples

  • Melee combat is pretty much the meat and potatoes of Fable.

  • While not strictly a meat-and-potatoes guy, he felt more comfortable with a meal he could recognize, like the week­day special at Uncle Sally's Galley, not something tiny and exotic, wrapped in dainty strands of imported grass.

  • Character Creation is new to Soul Calibur and will probably be the meat and potatoes of the game.

  • Vegetarianism has been steadily gaining acceptance as an alternative to the meat-and-potatoes bias of the traditional American diet.

  • Here are the meat and potatoes of your real trade-in valuation with Canadian Black Book.

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