Meat

 Related topics: Food, Agriculture

• meat
• 1 [uncountable and countable] the flesh of animals and birds eaten as food:
• I gave up eating meat a few months ago.
• raw meat
• a meat pie
• a selection of cold meats
• red meat (=a dark-coloured meat such as beef)
• white meat (=meat that is pale in colour, for example chicken)
• 2 [uncountable] something interesting or important in a talk, book, film etc:
• There's no meat to their arguments.
• We then got down to the real meat of the debate (=the main and most interesting part of it).
• 3

   somebody doesn't have much meat on him/her

  British English

   ; need some (more) meat on your bones

  American English informal used to say that someone looks very thin
• 4

   one man's meat is another man's poison

  used to say that something that one person likes may not be liked by someone else
• 5

   be easy meat

  British English informal if someone is easy meat, they are easy to defeat, deceive, or hurt
• be easy meat for
• San Marino should be easy meat for England in next week's match.
• 6

   the meat and potatoes

  American English informal the most important or basic parts of a discussion, decision, piece of work etc:
• Let's get down to the meat and potatoes. How much are you going to pay me for this?
• 7

   be meat and drink to somebody

  British English to be something that someone enjoys doing or finds very easy to do because they have done it many times before:
• The first five questions in the quiz were about football, which was meat and drink to Brian.

Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Advanced Learner's Dictionary.