meat_and_potatoes (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the expression *meat and potatoes*:
NOUN	cognition	meat and potatoes	the fundamental part

English > *meat and potatoes*: 1 sense > noun 1, cognition
Meaning	The fundamental part.
Example	"successful negotiation is the meat and potatoes of arbitration"
Broader	basis, base, foundation, fundament, groundwork, cornerstone	The fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated / calculated or explained
Spanish	meollo, parte fundamental

HyperDic: meat_and_potatoes