n[
Language: Old English;Origin: mete
'food']
[U and C]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 meatsred meat(=a dark-coloured meat such as
beef)
white meat(=meat that is pale in colour, for example
chicken)
[U]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) .sb doesn't have much meat on him/herBrEneed some (more) meat on your bonesAmE informal used to say that someone looks very thin
one man's meat is another man's poisonused to say that something that one person likes may not be liked by someone else
be easy meatBrE 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.the meat and potatoesAmE 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?be meat and drink to sbBrE 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.the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food