meat and potatoes

肉和土豆肉和马铃薯肉类和土豆肉类和薯类

meat and potatoes 的定义

n. 名词 noun

Informal.

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

meat and potatoes 近义词

n. 名词 noun

fundamental parts

更多meat and potatoes例句

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