Adjective : What are the meat-and-potatoes issues of the election?.    From Dictionary.com. 

They want their meat-and-potatoes concerns to be met.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary's Congressional Supporters Back Off Plan To Push Hillary As Veep] Reference

Turnip soup, that even my meat-and-potatoes brother liked.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vín og skel] Reference

AAUW: as we delve into the meat-and-potatoes Q & A session.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confirmation Hearings Day One « AAUW Dialog] Reference

They took over meat-and-potatoes firms like Goodrich Corp.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taking Care of the Customer] Reference

This is a welcome return to meat-and-potatoes law enforcement.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Real Bad Guys] Reference

Reporter Jeffrey Trachtenberg gives it a try I'm a meat-and-potatoes guy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diet Dispatch: A Carnivore's Resolve to Eat No Meat (or Dairy, or White Bread, Pasta or Cake)] Reference

I can't wait to get into the real meat-and-potatoes of the story tonight.    From Wordnik.com.  [HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS] Reference

The Justice Department's welcome return to meat-and-potatoes law enforcement.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Real Bad Guys] Reference

He says they are very traditional people, very meat-and-potatoes, very pro-life.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 1, 2006] Reference

Even many meat-and-potatoes ETFs from well-known ETF firms have seen spreads widen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Market Ills, New Rules Pinch ETF Traders] Reference

This is really meat-and-potatoes stuff, and I'll be bringing you a little more of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Genuinely interesting thing I bet you haven't read about] Reference

When I first tuned in, TV offered a meat-and-potatoes diet of mostly baseball and boxing.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Favorite Year] Reference

Why has Internet advertising become a meat-and-potatoes buy for food and drink marketers?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Consumer Packaged Goods Marketers Love the Internet | Impact Lab] Reference

Cancer has turned Baker from a meat-and-potatoes man to a regular drinker of fruit smoothies.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Baker likely to remain with Giants] Reference

Not that as a "spice" they might not like to step outside themselves, but not as meat-and-potatoes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2010-04-01] Reference

Even her free ebooks on marketing tips contain the meat-and-potatoes information that is truly useful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interview with the Book Marketing Maven - by The Creative Penn | The Creative Penn] Reference

So, now we're up to the real meat-and-potatoes of it all...or in this case pheasant, champagne and rice.    From Wordnik.com.  [French gourmet dinner: 5th & 6th courses] Reference

This meat-and-potatoes soup, along with a salad and bread or bolillos, could easily serve as a main meal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chihuahua Mennonite meatball soup: Caldo de albondigas] Reference

I made it for a firehouse dinner 20 emergency responders, on shift, with a definite meat-and-potatoes bent.    From Wordnik.com.  [fennel, prosciutto and pomegranate salad | smitten kitchen] Reference

"I'm a meat-and-potatoes type," we hear people say when they proclaim their culinary down-to-earth attitude.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dirt on "Prose and Potatoes"] Reference

Instructional pieces form the proverbial meat-and-potatoes of many, if not most, writing magazines and newsletters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-04-01] Reference

Obviously, you've got to talk in more meat-and-potatoes terms about how your economic proposals will help working people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memo to Obama] Reference

There are meat-and-potatoes issues such as health care, education, and jobs that matter more to them than global warming.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bordering on Bipartisanship] Reference

What's interesting is that Shanks 'book apparently peddles the "meat-and-potatoes" of so many ID critics I have run across.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Vertical Playing Field] Reference

… Her background is heavily in political legal advocacy more than the meat-and-potatoes discipline of serious legal work. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonkbook: Murkowski defeated; BP to White House; Deflation concerns] Reference

Maybe a CEO got his start at a good, solid meat-and-potatoes insurance company, where he landed straight out of state college.    From Wordnik.com.  [It's Lonely at the Top] Reference

He was weak on meat-and-potatoes Democratic issues -- public education, Medicaid -- and he was running as a man above politics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smiles And Sharp Elbows] Reference

It's just kind of — it's a meat-and-potatoes town, sports, the dying steel industry, real people, flyover- kind-of-state people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interview: Kevin Smith on Zack and Miri Make a Porno! « FirstShowing.net] Reference

She often makes two separate dinners -- one for herself and one for her daughter, who she says is a meat-and-potatoes kind of girl.    From Wordnik.com.  [Executive Needs Bulletin Board For Her Packed Exercise Schedule] Reference

I agree that a more-produced story is a nice treat – like dessert – but prefer the meat-and-potatoes style of the usual podcasts.    From Wordnik.com.  [EP064: Head of State] Reference

By getting to the meat-and-potatoes of storytelling, their overall message, whether comedic or serious, is that much louder as a result.    From Wordnik.com.  [Analysis: Too Much Of A Good Thing? | Fan Cinema Today] Reference

So- yes, I made Niku Jaga for dinner the other night- my first try- and it was everything that you'd want from a meat-and-potatoes dish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-03-01] Reference

The meat-and-potatoes military is about practicalities: it does whatever is necessary to, say, restore stability in Iraq and Afghanistan.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Media and the Military] Reference

However, she was a wonderful cook, always on the chase for more good recipes, rarely cooking a meat-and-potatoes meal, and was always busy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference

Not after the meat-and-potatoes effort the Scots (17-1) put in Tuesday.    From Wordnik.com.  [poststar.com RSS] Reference

Linda proved it with a short ribs dish that is the perfect meat-and-potatoes.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to A favorite feature from the west coast of India: Masala fried fish] Reference

The film is a meat-and-potatoes adventure enlivened by a few brief star turns.    From Wordnik.com.  [LJWorld.com stories: News] Reference