How to Use meat and potatoes in a Sentence

meat and potatoes

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• The playoffs are the meat and potatoes, with dessert thrown in.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 27 Apr. 2023
• Just meat and potatoes, the bow was born for the whitetail woods.
  — Jace Bauserman, Outdoor Life, 7 Jan. 2021
• In the 1970s, a new wave of American cooking began to emerge from the meat and potatoes of the past.
  — Kate Kassin, Bon Appétit, 6 Mar. 2023
• McCarthy, with deep Pittsburgh roots, is a meat and potatoes type of man.
  — Calvin Watkins, Dallas News, 21 July 2021
• If meat and potatoes meals are your go-to, trying to avoid meat for one day a week can have an impact.
  — Lauren Manaker Ms, Rdn, Health.com, 28 Mar. 2022
• For decades bonds were the meat and potatoes of pension portfolios.
  — Heather Gillers, WSJ, 22 Sep. 2022
• Remember, the meat and potatoes are in the body of your email, but the subject is your alluring dessert.
  — Gareth Parkin, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2021
• Krens’s vision soon had legs, then a skeleton, then meat and potatoes.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 23 Sep. 2020
• In other words, public funding is the meat and potatoes.
  — Keith M. Phaneuf, courant.com, 20 Nov. 2019
• And of course, lots and lots of delicious recipes, mainly of the meat and potatoes variety.
  — Perri Ormont Blumberg, Southern Living, 25 May 2021
• In the afternoon session, Thompson and the cast got down to the meat and potatoes of interrogating the script and the songs.
  — John Lahr, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2022
• Him and Ray Kennedy were really responsible for the meat and potatoes of the whole thing.
  — Jason Scott, Billboard, 30 June 2018
• Pair with latkes for the ultimate meat and potatoes dinner.
  — Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2020
• The addition of lemon and white wine brings depth and brightness of flavor to an otherwise run-of-the-mill meal of meat and potatoes.
  — Cheryl Slocum, Country Living, 22 Dec. 2010
• Plenty of top chefs have elevated the idea of meat and potatoes.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2022
• Chicago has always been a bastion of meat and potatoes.
  — Ari Bendersky, Robb Report, 30 Mar. 2022
• Aji serves as a pungent salve for all the rich meat and potatoes, and a dressing that makes even the tired leaves of romaine and iceberg worth eating.
  — Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2021
• Think Sundays off wearing thick socks and sweaters, chowing on hearty meals of meat and potatoes by the fire with your neighbors.
  — NBC News, 14 Dec. 2017
• Potatoes are always a great match for steak, and Crispy Potatoes fill that meat and potatoes craving.
  — Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 9 Oct. 2023
• But the upper level, the hi-hat and the cymbals doing those 16th-notes — the faster patterns — are the connective tissue for the meat and potatoes of kick snare.
  — Vulture, 16 Mar. 2022
• However, the real meat and potatoes come from tweaking the audio in Sonar.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 24 May 2022
• To me, the powerful tune has always been the nub, the meat and potatoes of the American musical theater.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 31 Dec. 2019
• Rachael Ray’s ending her longtime talk show after more than a decade, but food content will still be her meat and potatoes.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2023
• The Erector Set stadium looked the part for a meat and potatoes franchise whose ethos was established by Paul Brown.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 2 Oct. 2017
• Power is great, but cornering performance is the real meat and potatoes of the Elantra N.
  — Matt Crisara, Popular Mechanics, 15 Nov. 2022
• For cooking in the wild, lean into the foil packet—tinfoil packed with goodness and cooked on the edge of the fire—but don’t limit yourself to standard meat and potatoes.
  — Outside Online, 19 May 2021
• The chefs next turned to the elimination challenge, assigned to put their unique spin on meat and potatoes for a block party in Denver’s Larimer Square.
  — Leeanne Griffin, courant.com, 8 Dec. 2017
• For those of us lucky enough to be safe and able to work from home, November and December are bringing back TV meat and potatoes fare, along with some more gourmet items.
  — oregonlive, 4 Nov. 2020
• Trucks are the meat and potatoes of vehicle sales, and automakers have been unable to make one crazy enough to keep people from buying them.
  — Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 28 Sep. 2020
• This will fulfill any meat and potatoes craving, especially when served with a rich, brown gravy.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 6 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 6 Oct 2024