Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun meat_and_potatoes

1 sense of meat and potatoes

Sense 1
meat and potatoes -- (the fundamental part; "successful negotiation is the meat and potatoes of arbitration")
       => basis, base, foundation, fundament, groundwork, cornerstone -- (the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained; "the whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture")