English / idiom
Meat and Potatoes
MEANING IN ENGLISH
The fundamental, core, or most essential elements of a topic or project.
In context
01
After hours of petty bickering, the negotiators finally addressed the meat and potatoes of the deal.
02
Financial transparency is the meat and potatoes of every lasting business partnership.
Synonyms
core essentials,nuts and bolts,fundamentals
Antonyms
trivia,frills,peripheral details
Collocations
the meat and potatoes of the issue,focus on the meat and potatoes,basic meat and potatoes