meat and potatoes vs primal

meat and potatoes

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

  • The essential part or parts of something. 

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

primal

noun
  • A primal cut (of meat). 

verb
  • To take part in primal therapy. 

adj
  • Being the first in time or in history. 

  • Of greatest importance; primary. 

  • Being one of the pieces of meat initially separated from the carcass during butchering, prior to division into smaller cuts. 

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