Informal basic elements; essentials; fundamentals
meat and potatoes
meat and potatoesmeat-and-potatoes
- basic; fundamental: they talked about the meat-and-potatoes issues
- ordinary; everyday
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Adjective
(comparative more meat and potatoes, superlative most meat and potatoes)
- 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.
Noun
(uncountable)
Adjective
(comparative more meat-and-potatoes, superlative most meat-and-potatoes)
- Alternative spelling of meat and potatoes.
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