meat and potatoes vs medial

meat and potatoes

adj
  • Normal, average, typical, unexceptional, or nondescript. 

noun
  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see meat, and, potatoes. 

  • The essential part or parts of something. 

medial

adj
  • Of or pertaining to a mean or average. 

  • Of or pertaining to the media and/or the areas of the wing next to it. 

  • Pertaining to the inside; closer to the median plane of the body or the midline of an organ. 

  • (of a speech sound) In the middle of a word. 

  • Closer to the addressee. 

  • Pertaining to the middle layer of a blood vessel, to its tunica media. 

  • (of a consonant) Central: produced when air flows across the center of the mouth over the tongue. 

noun
  • One or more letters that occur in the middle of a word. 

  • Any of various things that occur in the middle. 

How often have the words meat and potatoes and medial occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )