meat and potatoes

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meat and potatoes

pl.n. Informal (used with a sing. or pl. verb)

The fundamental parts or part; the basis.

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meat and potatoes - the fundamental part; "successful negotiation is the meat and potatoes of arbitration"

cornerstone, fundament, groundwork, basis, foundation, base - the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained; "the whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture"

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