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the meat and potatoes (American, informal)

the most important or basic parts of something. They stuck to the meat and potatoes of broadcasting - sports and news.

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But the fare was of the most substantial kind --not only meat and potatoes, but dumplings; good heavens Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context More results

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