Synonyms for meat and potatoes
meat and pota·toes

Princeton's WordNet

1. meat and potatoesnoun

   the fundamental part

   "successful negotiation is the meat and potatoes of arbitration"

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1. • Basis

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1. Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962:

   To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.

2. Bette Davis:

   To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life.

3. Bette Davis:

   To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

4. Bette Davis:

   To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to seat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.

5. Rob Jackson:

   It's important meat-and-potatoes work we should have done before.