单词 | meat and potatoes |
释义 | meat and potatoesSEE SYNONYMS FOR meat and potatoes ON THESAURUS.COM noun (used with a singular or plural verb)Informal.the essential or basic part: Community service is the meat and potatoes of this program. Origin of meat and potatoesprobably earlier than 1950–55 Words nearby meat and potatoesmeasuring spoon, measuringworm, meat, meatal, meat and drink to one, meat and potatoes, meat ax, meataxe, meatball, Meath, meathead Definition for meat and potatoes (2 of 2)meat-and-potatoes or meat-and-po·ta·to[ meet-n-puh-tey-tohz, -tuhz ] / ˈmit n pəˈteɪ toʊz, -təz / adjective Informal.fundamental; down-to-earth; basic: What are the meat-and-potatoes issues of the election? Origin of meat-and-potatoesFirst recorded in 1945–50 Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for meat and potatoes
Idioms and Phrases with meat and potatoesmeat and potatoes The fundamental part or parts of something, as in This paragraph is the meat and potatoes of the contract. This metaphoric term transfers what some regard as basic fare to the basics of an issue. [Mid-1900s] The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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