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  1. the most basic and important aspects or parts of something

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He is the definition of a meat and potatoes guy.
So this book is meat and potatoes for Wall Street.
BC: Yeah, the personal stakes are the meat and potatoes here.
" Mr. Kaysen sums up the dish as simply "meat and potatoes.
Sometimes those meat and potatoes seem to fixate uneasily on the stomach.
"We are at meat and potatoes time," he said, praising Mr. Biden.
Sure, it's just meat and potatoes, but it's done so very, very right.
"This term is loaded with meat-and-potatoes cases, not blockbusters," he said.
The meat and potatoes: solid and reliable, like Matt Damon and Russell Crowe.
He's dialing up beloved liberal talking points, the very meat-and-potatoes issues.
"Its important meat-and-potatoes work we should have done before," Jackson said.
If you do want your meat and potatoes to be meat and potatoes, then little ones, wedged and put in a hot oven in a cast-iron pan with a good deal of olive oil or duck fat are particularly fine.
I definitely see there becoming more alternatives to the 'meat and potatoes' superhero stories.
He posted his methodology in a LinkedIn post, but here's the meat and potatoes.
Guests are always impressed with the presentation, a festive turn on meat and potatoes.
The meat-and-potatoes quality of the show is, at a minimum, a sensible approach.
If any story could be said to benefit from meat-and-potatoes artlessness, it's Escobar's.
There were these comedians who were making jokes about us, calling us meat and potatoes.
But his skills with meat-and-potatoes emotional storytelling do bring a lot to the table.
Not everything has to have the straightforward, meat-and-potatoes plotting of something like The Americans.
Swapping meat and potatoes for tuber tartines may overwhelm those flirting with early-stage plant-centrism.
Should more attention be given to meat-and-potatoes policy issues like healthcare and economic growth?
Sometimes, being a meat-and-potatoes kind of dude (or dudette) can be the greatest compliment.
Since then, Warhound has kept busy pumping out war-themed meat and potatoes metal of death.
If I'm going to be an analogy to food, I want to be your meat and potatoes.
We need to get back to the meat-and-potatoes issues of economic development and international trade.
Kelly, on the other hand, focused on meat-and-potatoes issues like education funding and Medicaid expansion.
To combine the meat and potatoes for roasting, I chose my new favorite way with potatoes — crushed.
And before you ask, I think that the Oscars are like a '70s-style meat-and-potatoes platter.
Let's get to the meat and potatoes of the book, which is about how to deal with assholes.
Judged on its own, "Confirmation" is solidly in the middle range of meat-and-potatoes HBO historical movies.
In meat-and-potatoes fare, Mr. Olafsson is a master of finding and exploiting unexpected pockets of musicality.
But honestly, we don't mind because the fluff is balanced with the meat and potatoes of Ginsburg's legal work.
The United States might be largely considered a meat-and-potatoes nation, but we sure do love our pizza.
Even diners in a meat-and-potatoes town like Cleveland have an appetite for a top-notch veggie burger.
Trump, known to favor a meat-and-potatoes and fast food-heavy diet, is partial to thoroughly cooked steaks.
City Kitchen I'm an ardent vegetable lover, but, sometimes, what I really want to eat is meat and potatoes.
If guests are coming, a simple meat-and-potatoes option makes for carefree entertaining, especially during the winter holidays.
But the intensity of his mission and the focus on progressive issues, especially meat-and-potatoes economic ones, is still there.
But the food was the best he had ever eaten: meat and potatoes, pork chops, broiled chicken, sometimes steak, sausages for breakfast.
With hindsight, Mrs Clinton may have been wrong to spend so little time campaigning on meat-and-potatoes issues in the Midwest.
Already, comic site Bleeding Cool has reported, Marvel is starting to move back to traditional "meat and potatoes" versions of classic characters.
It is meat-and-potatoes stuff but like any good wrestler-turned-MMA-fighter, he understands the value of expectation is deception.
Beyond electrification and connectivity, though, there's still BMW's meat and potatoes — and the company has some news for more traditional car fans, too.
"Focus on the meat and potatoes and not the peas," said Doug Cote, chief market strategist at Voya Investment Management in New York.
So the first phase was three months of bulking up, which was 7,000 calories a day of meat and potatoes and weight lifting.
Since 2014, Ford, Chevy, and RAM — the Big Three of pickup brands — have each redesigned their bread-and-butter (Meat and potatoes?) truck.
He said that the condition hasn't interfered with his work: much of Joe Beef's menu—raw seafood, meat and potatoes—is gluten-free.
The stump speech If the walk-up song provides the flavor, the stump speech is the meat and potatoes of the campaign rally.
"He is kind of a meat and potatoes kind of guy" Gorsuch said, and an avid fan of the Washington Nationals baseball team.
And what about the president, who's known as more of a meat-and-potatoes fan than a caviar-and-foie gras kind of guy?
Read on for tips, strategies and ideal maps/modes to help you suck less at using Overwatch's meat-and-potatoes shooty man, Soldier: 76.
But against Travis Browne, Werdum was able to use his meat-and-potatoes striking combinations to fluster and hurt the larger, harder hitting man.
A straight forward meat-and-potatoes rikishi, Kotoshogiku looks to get his underhooks, raise the opponent's weight, and drive them out of the ring.
Both specials don't require previous viewing of the show's 20 episodes, but why would you want to miss the meat and potatoes of this show?
According to the Mirror, the competitors will eat pies with a chicken filling, instead of the meat-and-potatoes that they've downed in previous years.
Colleagues in the media have told me that if they just gave people meat-and-potatoes evidence all the time, they wouldn't be as popular.
By showing social and political change over time — really the meat and potatoes of the historian's craft — the book made clear that progress was possible.
For instance, extended short term plans offer individuals "meat and potatoes" health care coverage while costing up to 28503 percent less than their ObamaCare alternatives.
"You know, everybody gets a chance to eat ... and not just a tasty side dish, but folks are getting some meat and potatoes into their bodies."
And while she has gotten her family used to trying new cuisines or ingredients, she says she hasn't permanently converted them from loving meat and potatoes.
Although we sense how busy the State Department is—and, when warranted, how indignant—the actual meat and potatoes of diplomatic effort are rarely dished up.
"Judged on its own, 'Confirmation' is solidly in the middle range of meat-and-potatoes HBO historical movies," James Poniewozik wrote in The New York Times.
"They want more of a kind of meat-and-potatoes type candidate, someone who can beat [President Donald] Trump," Veasey told POLITICO in a phone interview.
The film also delivers on the meat-and-potatoes comic absurdity that James Franco has made such a highlight of his career, often alongside collaborator Seth Rogen.
So, we got to thinking and put together some TJ's hacks that are going to be our new weeknight bread and butter (or, uh, meat and potatoes).
Not because the food is virtuous — the food is White Castle — but because it indicates a shift in how meat-and-potatoes Americans think about vegan food.
Ray Kroc, the whirling center of "The Founder," doesn't come across as a meat-and-potatoes man — much less a mogul destined to peddle burgers and fries.
The Sunday roast is an integral part of British culture and a great excuse to wrap up your weekend in a gastronomic orgy of meat and potatoes.
The strange tale involves a Cinderella team, a bookmaker eager for publicity and, most important, a portly, middle-aged goalkeeper with a taste for meat and potatoes.
All these high-stakes games of telephone, with people's egos used as poker chips, are the meat and potatoes of In the Loop, a movie I love unreservedly.
Midwesterners are not all hard working simple folk who eat meat and potatoes every day, but there is something to a reputation and its effect on one's personality.
Tracer is a meat-and-potatoes flanker who is living her best life when she's buzzing around the enemy flanks, distracting enemies away from her team's forward advance.
But in the six years she spent creating beautiful visuals for these clients, she realized many business owners were struggling with the meat and potatoes of their brands.
To keep a sense of sanity, the mess rotates breakfast, lunch and dinner every few days so the late shift isn't stuck eating meat and potatoes for breakfast.
Making sure that rules and incentives are aligned to promote boring-but-important technologies — that's the real meat and potatoes of decarbonization in the next decade or two.
The show's structure introduces a minor wrinkle to the network's meat-and-potatoes procedural formula, offering one serialized plot thread surrounded by a lot of more ho-hum elements.
In fact, it was just meat and potatoes, foregoing the usual processions of producers, directors and celebrity appearances to showing one game after another, scored by a live orchestra.
First, a lingering pause; then the camera cuts to one of his flummoxed employees — it's a one-two punch that has become the meat and potatoes of the genre.
By picking up items like peanut butter, macaroni and cheese, meat and potatoes, Ms. Harris and the children were able to make meals and alleviate some of their stress.
If we have learned anything over the past year or so, it's that while symbolism shines brightly, it's the meat and potatoes behind the symbolism that truly carries weight.
I teach 10th and 12th grade English and this is our second full week of school, so we're just starting to get into the meat and potatoes of the curriculum.
That sort of meat-and-potatoes filmmaking is elemental to The Night Of's appeal: Find a good story, cast good actors, and make sure it looks like a million bucks.
At Mr. Donahue's, a meticulously retro shrine to the milder, grandfatherly aesthetic of meat and potatoes, the objective is different: to avoid "too many components," as Mr. Danzer put it.
But throughout the better part of the last decade, D.C. has worked hard to shake off its tired reputation as an antiquated steakhouse town where meat-and-potatoes reign supreme.
Jennifer Lawrence is hours away from saying "I do" on the Eastern Seaboard -- but until then, the meat and potatoes of her wedding venue are still being worked out ... literally.
In contrast to those entirely plant-based offerings, the Home Chef meals I tested seemed to target the meat and potatoes crowd, serving meals such as chimichurri steak with roasted potatoes.
Guys know jiu jitsu now, they know how to stop the sloppy takedowns he utilized, they know how to smother the meat and potatoes set ups he used from his guard.
These ravishing redheads are the meat and potatoes to this St. Patrick's Day weekend ... shamrock through our gallery of the hottest crimson stars to see who's the toast of the town!!!
The fighters live rough, sleeping in swags in the dirt and eating meat and potatoes cooked on the campfire that also keeps them warm on the frigid star-filled outback nights.
It was a character that happened to be Middle Eastern but had an entire arc that had nothing to do with his culture, which is sort of the meat and potatoes.
We're talking about potentially having him and Turner at the top, then we'll have our meat and potatoes in the middle, and as a pitcher, that's a difficult lineup to face.
The difference between meat-and-potatoes striking and clever striking isn't in the few different arcs the fighter's hands and feet can traverse; it is the stuff that comes between the strikes.
To say someone is a "meat-and-potatoes kind of guy" (or perhaps "kind of girl") is to imply that that person's taste doesn't really venture into the fussy, innovative, or overly complicated.
Their melodic punk may have been a touch more soulful than Chisel's meat-and-potatoes rock, but the hooky anthems had a young crowd frothing just as it had almost four decades earlier.
Its restaurant, Taylor & Clay, serves meat-and-potatoes fare like a Wagyu sirloin that arrived tougher than expected; the side of creamy root veggies and peas, which subbed for fries, swiped the show.
The median age in the Fox News audience is roughly 65, according to Nielsen, a demographic that is more likely than younger viewers to stick with meat-and-potatoes cable and satellite packages.
But "meat-and-potatoes" firms are a more accurate barometer of how so-called "unicorn" technology companies – firms worth $1 billion or more – will fare in the public markets, say investors and analysts.
Narcos Setting aside the "Goodfellas" narration, the earliest episodes of "Narcos" were distinguished by a meat-and-potatoes approach to the crime genre that rebuffed the slickness that usually comes with the territory.
As a result, it would be profoundly stupid for it to just get your typical meat-and-potatoes music video, with Vince driving a car around or hanging out by a pool or something.
The UFC's main card was hard to get through with each bout offering a meat-and-potatoes kickboxing match that looked as though it were lifted off a UFC card from ten years ago.
The Impossible Slider represents what few in the traditional beef industry thought possible — that cowless meat would be a hit in a country known for its meat-and-potatoes diet and love of burgers.
It's true that I rail against salad at Thanksgiving, but lately all I've been craving against the gravy, meat and potatoes is a pile of hothouse organic pea shoots dressed in Julia Moskin's vinaigrette.
Serving utensils, for example: They might not be the center of attention when the big platter of meat and potatoes arrives at the table, but try getting the food onto your plate without them.
Roundup For 229.95 years, Ernie Bushmiller's "Nancy" was the most meat-and-potatoes strip on the funnies page, a streamlined and glistening machine for delivering one dopey gag every day, no more and no less.
"They're seeing the meat and potatoes of complaints," said Kristen Clarke, the president and executive director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, which has been running its phone-reporting program since 2002.
And despite its turn to current affairs, the new Teen Vogue is still full of the meat and potatoes of teen-magazine stories — combating zits, trying out blond hair dye, the hottest fashions from Eastern Europe.
Your astrologer will follow these steps for Jupiter and Saturn, too, since these planets influence our social lives, and then they'll get to the meat and potatoes of your astrological identity: your sun, moon, and rising signs.
When Miesha Tate attempted to defend her belt against Amanda Nunes her porous defence saw her tagged up by meat and potatoes one-twos and overwhelmed by aggression, having her shots stuffed each time she changed level.
In the U.S. - where most adults are overweight or obese and eat a Western diet heavy on meat and potatoes and light on fruits and vegetables - the connection between eggs and heart disease might look quite different.
Advice on strategy, which used to be meat and potatoes for firms like McKinsey and its peers, Bain and the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), is now a side dish; it accounts for about a tenth of revenues.
They achieved their respective statuses by programming solid, meat-and-potatoes TV — by which I mean lots of crime shows that might not be sexy for critics to write about but are watched by millions of people anyway.
Meanwhile Neil Seery is coming off his biggest win to date as he finished John Delos Reyes in a bout which he showed himself to be just a little slicker than the meat-and-potatoes banger we expect.
What, then, would they — or for that matter, a medieval European peasant or a meat-and-potatoes American of the 1950s — make of the reverential plate at Vicia in St. Louis, listed on the menu as "Naked Vegetables"?
In Southeast Asia, after enduring a "dispiriting" meat-and-potatoes meal, Drzal realizes that her husband travels like a turtle, carrying his home with him, while she is a hermit crab, taking on new identities in each place.
"In some ways, we're still a meat-and-potatoes, shrimp-cocktail-and-Caesar-salad town, especially on the Strip," chef Bryan Howard says over lunch at Makers & Finders, a local coffee bar that serves innovative Latin comfort food.
This time the doctor advised Mr. Valenti to increase his intake of fiber, but failed to tell this 221-year-old meat-and-potatoes lover what he should eat to avoid yet another attack and its potentially serious complications.
The meat-and-potatoes satisfaction of that scene — two great actors, Ewan McGregor and Carrie Coon, going toe to toe, with the highest of stakes — calls attention to the conceptual gamesmanship of "Fargo," which can get a little cute.
Cruz is far from the first person to use tofu or 'tofu-eating' as an insult, especially to illustrate the cultural and ideological differences between meat-and-potatoes conservatives (which in itself is another stereotype) and their fussier liberal counterparts.
A meat-and-potatoes porn viewer might occasionally enjoy watching a bit of bondage on a 2D monitor, but as anyone who has watched VR porn can attest, the experience is much more immediate than a clip on a laptop screen.
As Democratic governor of Arizona, Bruce Babbitt declared 1985 "The Year of the Child," earning mockery from The Arizona Republic for offering voters "quiche" rather than the "meat and potatoes" of Arizona politics, such as water rights and economic development.
Still, negotiations between Britain and the European Union have been agonizingly slow so far, with both sides seemingly unable to move into the meat-and-potatoes talks that will address the terms that businesses based in Britain will face after Brexit.
The strong debut signals robust investor appetite for what are referred to as "meat-and-potatoes" technology offerings – enterprise software firms with moderate valuations but solid business models – and confidence in their ability to perform well in the public markets.
Art museums put on these shows at least in part because they think visitors will flock to them and perhaps, while they're on the premises, encounter the painting and sculpture that are the meat and potatoes at most such institutions.
Or that women are more likely to use meat-and-potatoes helper verbs like "has" and more ordinary ones like "start" (as opposed to, say, "commence"?) Did articles like "a" and "the" ever seem more Axe than Secret in your mind?
You shoot, you throw thermal detonators, you crouch, you take sniper shots; it's the meat and potatoes of any game of this ilk, but those that were frustrated by the first Star Wars Battlefront will immediately notice and appreciate the difference in feel.
Underscoring how trucks are still the meat and potatoes of the traditional auto industry - and extremely popular in Southern California - Chevrolet constructed a rugged off-road circuit on Tuesday to show off the power of its off-road pickup, the 2017 Colorado ZR20193.
For all of you meat and potatoes people out there (raises hand), ButcherBox is your ticket to skipping the annoying post-work grocery store trip and coming home to ready-to-cook grass-fed beef, heritage breed pork, and free-range organic chicken.
For Drake, that's always meant confidence-boosting bars and finger-pointing R&B—meat and potatoes stuff that's never fully disappeared in his genre experiments, but was nevertheless sidelined in favor of the sunny, island-informed pop music that filled More Life.
But things like this EV charging initiative — organizing agency programs, coordinating public-private partnerships, providing analysis and information to state and local governments — are the meat and potatoes of turning the enormous ship of American economy and governance in a new direction.
No matter how elite your sonic palate, I bet you anything that most of you (at least those of you who grew up on Morbid Angel and Death) are always at least a little down for some meat and potatoes death metal.
In NOURISHED: A Memoir of Food, Faith, and Enduring Love (With Recipes) (Convergent, $26), Lia Huber, a food writer and recipe developer, leaves the "meat-and-potatoes" safety of her Midwestern upbringing and sets out on a quixotic path of self-discovery.
There's the goat roti he grew up eating at his Trinidadian grandparents' house on Long Island — chunks of meat and potatoes seasoned effusively with warm spices — and jollof rice, a staple in Nigeria, enlivened with homemade curry powder and a Maggi seasoning cube.
At Fox News, he was seen as embodying the channel's typical viewer, pitching stories about meat-and-potatoes issues like the gas tax and boasting to colleagues about his commute from Long Island on an early-morning train filled with construction workers.
Over the last few seasons under Mark Hughes, however, the Potters seem to have eschewed meat-and-potatoes British and Irish players in favour of the same European technocrats as every other mid-table team: your Xherdan Shaqiris, your Ibrahim Afellays, your Bruno Martins Indis.
Underscoring how big trucks are still the meat and potatoes of the traditional auto industry - and extremely popular in Southern California - Chevrolet constructed a rugged off-road circuit on Tuesday to show off the power of its off-road pickup, the 2017 Colorado ZR213.
Here you'll find Jacob's Inn, where you can indulge in the beloved British tradition of a lavish Sunday lunch, complete with roasted meat and potatoes, a hearty portion of vegetables, crispy-soft Yorkshire puddings and plenty of red wine gravy to top it all off.
Katie Gibbons from Buffalo, N.Y., credits family food choices with making her more open-minded: My parents were both raised in lower middle class households with Northern European lineages; essentially, meat and potatoes were their way of life and seasoning was a four-letter-word.
At the height of the debt-fueled real estate boom in 2006, major real estate investors bought meat-and-potatoes housing that they had once ignored like Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village on the East Side of Manhattan and the Riverton Houses in Harlem.
She also posted an image of a hospital meal — meat and potatoes drowned in brown sauce, the opposite of food porn — and a video from the point of view of her bed, in which visitors out of frame sing a hymn for her hospital roommate.
While Ward is generally considered the man with the deeper bag of tricks, where Kovalev is more a meat and potatoes boxer-puncher, there were some slick moments from the big Russian including a couple of plays on Willie Pep's go-to side step.
Berg has never been a flashy director, preferring to serve up meat-and-potatoes action sequences rather than the razzle-dazzle of Michael Bay, but there are some lovely shots in Deepwater Horizon, including one of Rodridguez's reflection in a GPS monitor after the ship loses power.
The Silicon Valley congressman didn't merely read "Hillbilly Elegy", he's ventured from the land of knit-wool loafers and wood-grilled avocado (with ponzu and wasabi) to meat-and-potatoes Rust Belt Trump Country to sell the MAGA crowd on the virtues of the New Economy.
Consider watercolors: With their inherently delicate, even fugitive-feeling wisps of color and strange luminosity, which sometimes seems to radiate out from pigment-soaked washes, works made with watercolor on paper can feel lightweight to viewers who favor the meat-and-potatoes solidness of oil painting.
On his recent appearance on the Boomer and Carton sports radio show, the New Jersey governor discussed his recent Valentine's Day meal at the White House with the famously meat-and-potatoes-loving president, and he said that Trump more or less forced him to eat meatloaf.
He might seem meat-and-potatoes in that he rarely throws anything except straight punches but, as we examined in Stipe Miocic: King of the Heavyweights, Miocic has fought opponents of every skill, shape and style and always found a way to take away their best weapons and apply his own.
B. ISACKSON: --went the meat and potatoes of it, which a-- which a guy would love to have is, it's so hard for these kids to get into college, and here's-- look what-- look what's going on behind the schemes, and then, you know, the, the embarrassment to everyone in the communities.
From meat-and-potatoes tropes like handheld cameras, the "woman in distress," and the "unreliable narrator," to scarring cuts like interrogation sequences and "do you trust me?" moments, Nymphomaniac will get under your skin and stay there, not unlike the scariest installments in the diabolical von Trier canon, Antichrist, The Kingdom, and Epidemic.
I understand wanting to take every possible precaution against discovery, but zharkoye is literally just beef stew — as one of the summit attendees says in an earlier scene, "every dish in Russia starts with meat and potatoes" — more or less indistinguishable from pot roast to anyone who might be rummaging through the Jenningses' fridge.
And for many people who tend to follow a typical Western diet - heavy on meat and potatoes and light on fruit, vegetables and whole grains - these recommendations should serve as a reminder that it's time to start eating fish, said the advisory's lead author Eric Rimm of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston.
With digital outlets like Fox Sports ditching their entire writing/reporting apparatus in favor of videos of men talking loudly, it's reasonable to worry that news like this—simple, meat-and-potatoes breaking news stuff—would become harder to find; sniffing out stuff like this is what all those boots on the street do best, after all.
And in between meat-and-potatoes thrillers (Steven Spielberg's "Duel," on Saturday and Wednesday, and Jonathan Mostow's "Breakdown," on Friday, Tuesday and Thursday) and oddities (Sam Peckinpah's late-career "Convoy," on Wednesday and April 212 and 2212, adapted from a C. W. McCall song), the programming also cracks open a window on social issues of the 2708s.
The lebkuchen made with more than a dozen spices and aged for months before being baked, the strudel dough rolled by hand until supple and translucent enough to read a newspaper through, and the pillow-sized sourdoughs that took days to ferment, were as intricate and impractical as meat-and-potatoes staples like Königsberger Klopse (veal meatballs in cream sauce) were utilitarian.
Critics may argue a more fluid formation is needed, a subtle tweak in philosophy; they say that someone should lock Gary Cahill in a classroom for two days and not let him out until he stops involuntarily shouting "you wha?" when tiki-taka is mentioned; and that we need to build around two creative attacking talents anchored to a meat-and-potatoes box-to-box midfielder.
I'm just thinking, oh my God, because you're thinking, does this roll into something where, you know, if they get into the meat and potatoes, is this gonna be this-- be the front page story with everyone from Kleiner Perkins do whatever, getting these kids into school, and-- CW-1: Well, the, the person who'd be on the front page-- B. ISACKSON: Well, I, I-- But if-- but they, they -- CW-1: Yes.
I want to see a diverse enough landscape where everybody gets a chance to shine, everybody gets a chance to eat, and not just a tasty side dish, but folks are getting some meat and potatoes in their bodies and contributing to the conversation and putting characters into the world of substance that are complicated, that are intriguing, that everybody gets a chance to see a reflection of themselves on the big screen.

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