MEAT AND POTATOES

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The fundamental part

Example:

successful negotiation is the meat and potatoes of arbitration

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("meat and potatoes" is a kind of...):

base; basis; cornerstone; foundation; fundament; groundwork (the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained)

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