meat and potatoes

肉和土豆,肉和马铃薯,肉类和土豆,肉类和薯类

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
Informal.
- : the essential or basic part: Community service is the meat and potatoes of this program.

nounfundamental parts

Synonyms

As an example of good science-and-society policymaking, the history of fluoride may be more of a cautionary tale.
As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.
The smell of grilled meat mixes with the exotic wafts of cinnamon tea served with a mush of sweet brown dessert.
Yes, Byrd—dead four-and-a-half years now—was a Kleagle in the Ku Klux Klan.
Limbaugh makes comments like this because his right-wing fans require a non–stop diet of race-baiting red meat.
The sailors sometimes use it to fry their meat, for want of butter, and find it agreeable enough.
She also practises etching, pen-and-ink drawing, as well as crayon and water-color sketching.
We had new potatoes for dinner, boiled with their skins on, and Liszt threw one at me, and I caught it.
The camp grew still, except for the rough and ready cook pottering about the fire, boiling buffalo-meat and mixing biscuit-dough.
No law of that country must exceed in words the number of letters in their alphabet, which consists only in two-and-twenty.

肉和土豆,肉和马铃薯,肉类和土豆,肉类和薯类

n.名词 noun

1
Informal.
- : the essential or basic part: Community service is the meat and potatoes of this program.

nounfundamental parts

Synonyms

As an example of good science-and-society policymaking, the history of fluoride may be more of a cautionary tale.
As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.
The smell of grilled meat mixes with the exotic wafts of cinnamon tea served with a mush of sweet brown dessert.
Yes, Byrd—dead four-and-a-half years now—was a Kleagle in the Ku Klux Klan.
Limbaugh makes comments like this because his right-wing fans require a non–stop diet of race-baiting red meat.
The sailors sometimes use it to fry their meat, for want of butter, and find it agreeable enough.
She also practises etching, pen-and-ink drawing, as well as crayon and water-color sketching.
We had new potatoes for dinner, boiled with their skins on, and Liszt threw one at me, and I caught it.
The camp grew still, except for the rough and ready cook pottering about the fire, boiling buffalo-meat and mixing biscuit-dough.
No law of that country must exceed in words the number of letters in their alphabet, which consists only in two-and-twenty.