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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of meat-and-potatoes in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of meat-and-potatoes in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of meat-and-potatoes in a Sentence
Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962:
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.
Tiny houses are the sexy piece, but the meat and potatoes of what we do is connecting them to the services. ... We're a one-stop shop for all things veteran.
Roadster is kind of like dessert, we gotta get the meat and potatoes and greens and stuff.
To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life.
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