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Definition of
meat and potatoes noun
from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary
meat and potatoes
noun
noun
[
uncountable
]
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the most basic and important aspects or parts of something
Issues like this are the newspaper's meat and potatoes.
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meat and potatoes
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