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meat and potatoes

NOUN
  1. the fundamental part
    successful negotiation is the meat and potatoes of arbitration

How To Use meat and potatoes In A Sentence

  • Draw a vegetarian's indifference curve for meat and potatoes. Microeconomics: Price Theory in Practice
  • Before dinner you may have to hash out who is going to hash the meat and potatoes.
  • A typical meal consists of meat and potatoes with gravy and a fresh salad.
  • Meat and potatoes -- I call that a real meal.
  • The menu is heavy on meat and potatoes, with just a few token turkey, chicken and fish entrees.
  • The menu is heavy on meat and potatoes, with just a few token turkey, chicken and fish entrees.
  • The tunes make no pretence at being high art; this is meat and potatoes, served with a hot sauce. Times, Sunday Times
  • And if you don't want to get caught, prepare for a diet of unpackaged fruit and vegetables, raw meat and potatoes.
  • Ophelia and Daphne not down yet, Flavia?" he asked peevishly, looking up from the latest issue of The British Philatelist, which lay open beside his meat and potatoes. Excerpt: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
  • meat and potatoes--I call that a real meal
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