meat and potatoes
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"Staples like bread, meat and potatoes all cost more than they did even a month ago," says Danni Hewson, head of financial analysis at investment platform AJ Bell.
From BBC • Nov. 19, 2025
How is writing for “Matlock,” a meat and potatoes procedural, the same or different as writing for “Jane the Virgin,” which leaned on magical surrealism?
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 2024
Pairing it with a simple side of partially mashed chickpeas will satisfy that meat and potatoes guy in your life for Father’s Day.
From Washington Times • Jun. 14, 2023
In 2020, Taste of Home published a list of "39 recipes husbands can't get enough of," including some real "meat and potatoes" fare like beef chimichangas and burgers with grilled cheese sandwiches as buns.
From Salon • Feb. 12, 2023
Big, heaping plates of meat and potatoes and gravy, and steaming black coffee.
From "Prisoner B-3087" by Alan Gratz
