meat-and-potatoes in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for meat-and-potatoes in the English»French Dictionary

meat [Brit miːt, Am mit] N

1. meat FOOD:

meat

viande f

meat (flesh)

chair f

red/white meat

viande rouge/blanche

chicken/crab meat

chair de poulet/de crabe

chicken/crab meat attr dish, extract

de viande

chicken/crab meat industry

de la viande

meat products

produits mpl à base de viande

2. meat (main part):

meat fig

essentiel m (of de)

3. meat (food):

meat archaic

nourriture f

meat and two veg inf

viande garnie de deux légumes

he's a meat-and-two-veg man Brit inf , he's a meat-and-potatoes man Am inf

il est très steak-frites inf

political scandals are meat and drink to them

ils se repaissent de scandales politiques

to be strong meat

être choquant

one man's meat is another man's poison prov

le bonheur des uns fait le malheur des autres prov

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

But the album's meat-and-potatoes consistency remains bracing throughout.

en.wikipedia.org

After we threw our bags into our rooms, we met in a small canteen serving meat-and-potatoes dishes, with few fruits and vegetables in sight.

news.nationalpost.com

We're not a flashy team, we're a meat-and-potatoes type of team and that's how we always have to play.

lethbridgeherald.com

I had a phone interview with him last week, in which he revealed that, at his heart, he is a meat-and-potatoes guy.

edmontonjournal.com

We are a meat-and-potatoes team, and we make a lot of plays below the hash marks.

bluejacketsxtra.dispatch.com

But having said that, some of our best creations have come as a reaction to certain meat-and-potatoes problems that we've faced.

www.avclub.com

We wanted to do a real meat-and-potatoes type of multi-camera show.

www.thestar.com

A capably done, contemporary, meat-and-potatoes heist yarn wrapped around a major romantic complication.

www.telegraph.co.uk

It's got ta be the whole meat-and-potatoes analogy.

consequenceofsound.net

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.

www.vox.com