meat and potatoes

Speech parts

1. meat and potatoes - Noun

2. meat and potatoes - Adjective

Meaning

the fundamental part

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Alternative names

meat-and-potatoes

Synonyms

base basis basic heart core essential meat essence kernel crux gist bedrock fundamentals bottom line nuts and bolts

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Antonyms

addition auxiliary addendum minor secondary extension

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Hypernyms

foundation base basis groundwork fundament cornerstone

Examples

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. Bette Davis

I've pretty much been portrayed as every style thing you can be. After Wimbledon you are Andy Everyman, who everybody is rooting for. I think the meat and potatoes of who I am hasn't been covered yet. Andy Roddick

The world doesn't live off jam and fancy perfumes - it lives off bread and meat and potatoes. Nothing changes. All the big fancy stuff is sloppy stuff that crashes. I don't need dancing baloney - I need stuff that works. That's not as pretty, and just as hard. Theo de Raadt

I'm not Ted Nugent. My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature. I would never hunt. I would never wear fur. I would never go to a bullfight. I'm not really a meat and potatoes guy. Anthony Bourdain

I basically have the diet of a 19th-century Irish navy, apart from the litre of stout a day. It's meat and potatoes and bread and cheese: those are my four food groups. Daniel Radcliffe

Too much chicken soup for the soul is not a good thing. Working men eat meat and potatoes. Don Miller (author)

Close letter words and terms

meat aficionado meat and drink meat and eggs meat and three meat and two veg meat animal