Because meat and potatoes is the standard meal.

因为肉和土豆是标准餐。

Not bad but Skynyrd is meat and potatoes

不错。不过Skynyrd乐队的歌，是小菜一碟。

Observation is the meat and potatoes of detective work.

观察是侦探工作的基本素养。

Well, very often we would have a meat and potato pie. Very often.

我们经常吃土豆肉派，经常。

We often say the meat and potatoes of that job is...meaning the standard.

我们经常说这份工作的主要部分是… … 意思是标准。

Now, this is the meat and potatoes of your essay, it's the most important part.

这是你文章的主要部分，是最重要的部分。

The meat and potatoes of our video lessons is grammar and vocabulary.

我们视频课的重点是语法和词汇。

Ten minutes later he saw a woman who was carrying three plates of meat and potatoes.

10分钟后，他看见一个女佣正端着3盘子肉和土豆。

For his part, Jobs was upset that the Germans kept trying to feed him meat and potatoes.

乔布斯方面，德国人老是让他吃肉和土豆，这使他非常不高兴。

By six o'clock they were at the kitchen table having their dinner, usually meat and potatoes and gravy.

六点他们坐到厨房餐桌前共进晚餐。通常是肉和土豆佐以酱料。

He's a meat and potatoes kind of guy.

他是一个肉和土豆类型的人。

It's not just meat and potatoes.

不仅仅是肉和土豆。

She liked serving us meat and potatoes for dinner.Meat and potatoes can also mean the most important part of something.It describes someone who likes simple things.

晚餐时，她喜欢给我们吃肉和土豆。肉和土豆（Meat and potatoes）还指事物最重要的部分。也可用来指一个喜欢简单事物的人。

Chinese scraps, meat and potato scraps.

中国剩饭 肉和土豆剩饭。

When I was growing up, my diet was: Every day meat and potatoes, and vegetables.

示例：在我成长的过程中， 我的饮食是：每天吃肉、土豆和蔬菜。

A meat and potato man It is a little less common, but we can also describe a woman as a meat-and-potatoes kind of person.

一个简朴的人虽然这个表达用来形容女人不常见，但是我们也可以用它来形容一个女人简朴。

The United States is traditionally famous for its very solid and unchanging diet of meat and potatoes.

美国人多年来那种丰盛的、一成不变的肉制品加土豆的传统餐, 早已为世人所熟知。

Let’s get down to the meat and potatoes. How much are you going to pay me for this?

【meat】我们来谈最关键的问题: 你打算为此付我多少钱？

On the surface, we can see some funny differences like conservatives like meat and potatoes more while liberals tend to like trying food from other cultures more.

从表面看，我们可以看到一些有趣的差别，比如，保守派比较喜欢肉类和马铃薯而自由派则比较倾向于尝试其他国家的食物。

It's the size, the way that they're made, the combination of meat and potatoes, and the olive, black olives and the onions.

重要的是大小、制作方式、肉和土豆、橄榄、黑橄榄和洋葱的组合。