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meat and potatoes

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  • adjective normal, average, typical, unexceptional, or nondescript in description
  • noun Used other than as an idiom: see meat,‎ and,‎ potatoes.
  • noun US, informal The essential part or parts of something.

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  • noun the fundamental part

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hypernyms (6)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. base
  2. basis
  3. cornerstone
  4. foundation
  5. fundament
  6. groundwork

forms (2)

Forms

  1. meat-and-potato
  2. meat-and-potatoes

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